pubmed-article:12510291 | pubmed:abstractText | Hitherto unknown, relatively labile gem-difluorinated vinyloxiranes were prepared by difluoro-Wittig reactions with alpha,beta-epoxyketones; for these vinyloxiranes alkyl groups were delivered at the fluorine-attached terminal carbon atom in an SN2' manner by RLi, while Me3Al and MeMgBr-CuCl (3: 1) introduced the Me group at the allylic epoxy carbon with retention and inversion of the original stereochemistry, respectively. | lld:pubmed |