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A direct and efficient approach for the trifluoromethylation and pentafluoroethylation of 1,1-diaryl-2,2-difluoroethenes with TMSCF3 and TMSCF2CF3 in the presence of TBAF was developed. The reactions proceeded smoothly under mild reaction conditions to give the corresponding monotrifluoromethylated, bistrifluoromethylated, monopentafluoroethylated and bispentafluoroethylated products in fair to good yields, respectively, without the addition of metal catalyst.

A series of 1-aryl-5-trifluoromethyl (or difluoromethyl)–1,4,5-trisubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles were synthesized in high yield by a novel one-pot three-component reaction of arylboronic acids, sodium azide, and active methylene ketones, such as ethyl 4,4-difluoroacetoacetate or ethyl 4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacetate in the presence of Cu(OAc)2 and piperidine using a DMSO/H2O (10/1) mixture as solvent.