1. Indium-Mediated Reaction of 3-Bromo-3,3-difluoropropene and Bromodifluoromethylacetylene Derivatives with Aldehydes
2. α,α-difluoroallyl carbanion: Indium-mediation in its facile coupling with aldehydes
3. Asymmetric syntheses of the 2,2-difluoro-3-hydroxycarboxylates 2 were reported by Iseki et al.: (a) Iseki, K.; Kuroki, Y.; Asada, D.; Kobayashi, Y. Tetrahedron Lett. 1997, 38, 1447–1448; (b) Iseki, K.; Kuroki, Y.; Asada, D.; Takahashi, M.; Kishimoto, S.; Kobayashi, Y. Tetrahedron 1997, 53, 10271–10280; (c) Kuroki, Y.; Asada, D.; Iseki, K. Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 41, 9853–9858.
4. Rapid syntheses of difluorinated dihydropyrans
5. Preparative biotransformations