Update 1 of: Asymmetric Fluorination, Trifluoromethylation, and Perfluoroalkylation Reactions

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Synthetic fluorine chemistry

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Enantioselective halogenation reactions

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Synthesis of Monotrifluoromethyl-Substituted Saturated Cycles

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New approaches to enantioselective fluorination: Cinchona alkaloids combinations and chiral ligands/metal complexes

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C−F···H−C Hydrogen Bonds in Ribonucleic Acids

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DNA-Mediated Enantioselective Carbon-Fluorine Bond Formation

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Titanium-Catalyzed Stereoselective Geminal Heterodihalogenation of β-Ketoesters

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(α-Monofluoroalkyl)phosphonates: a class of isoacidic and “tunable” mimics of biological phosphates

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Significant Inter- and Intramolecular O−H···FC Hydrogen Bonding

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The Mechanism of Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination: Computational and Experimental Studies

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How to Reach Stereogenic Trifluoromethylated Carbon? En Route to the “Grail” of the Asymmetric Trifluoromethylation Reaction

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Stereoselective Monofluoromethylation of Primary and Secondary Alcohols by Using a Fluorocarbon Nucleophile in a Mitsunobu Reaction

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Enantioselective introduction of fluoride into organic compounds

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N-Fluoro-3-cyclohexyl-3-methyl-2,3- dihydrobenzo[1,2-d]isothiazole 1,1-Dioxide: An Efficient Agent for Electrophilic Asymmetric Fluorination of Enolates

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