May anyone have a good reference about the aromatic substitution of trifluoromethyl group? which hydrogen atom substituted by -CF3 directly. Thank you in advance.
Dear Syadza, sorry to see that your very interesting technical question has not been answered yet. Many years ago we did a lot of work involving 1,3,5-tris(trifluoromethyl)benzene. This was made by converting the –COOH groups of 1,3,5-benzene-tricarboxlic acid into –CF3 groups by means of SF4. However, work with SF4 requires especially equipped laboratories. For the direct trifluoromethyl substitution of aromatic rings please have a look e.g. at the following useful article:
Trifluoromethylation of arenes and heteroarenes by means of photoredox catalysis
Unfortunately this paper is not available as public full text on RG. It is also worth a try to search the "Publications" section of RG directly for the term "trifluoromethylation of aromatic rings":