Acetic Acid → 2-Bromomethyl-decafluoropentan-2-ol

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Heptafluoropropyl iodide (5 g, 16.9 mmole) was stirred in dry diethyl ether (20 ml) at -78° C. Phenylmagnesium bromide (10 ml of a 1.88M solution in ether) was then added dropwise, keeping the temperature below -65° C. When the addition was complete, the reaction mixture was stirred at -20° C. for one hour. It was then cooled to -78° C. and 3-bromo-1,1,1-trifluoropropanone (4.87 g, 18.0 mmole) in dry diethylether (20 ml) was added dropwise, keeping the temperature below -65° C. When the addition was complete, the mixture was stirred at between -20° and -50° C. for four hours. Glacial acetic acid (3 ml) in diethyl ether (5 ml) was then added slowly, followed by water (15 ml). The mixture was then allowed to warm to 5° C. and the phases were separated. The aqueous phase was washed with ether (2×25 ml). The ethereal extracts were combined, dried (MgSO4) and evaporated to give crude 2-bromomethyl-decafluoropentan-2-ol (5.0 g).

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