2,3,4,5,6-Pentafluorobenzyl alcohol

653-37-2

440-60-8

General procedure for the synthesis of pentafluorobenzyl alcohol from pentafluorobenzaldehyde: A mixture of pentafluorobenzaldehyde (1.5 mmol), catalyst (0.01 mmol), and isopropanol (18.5 mL) was stirred for 10 minutes at 82 °C. Subsequently, 1.5 mL of 0.1 M KOH (0.15 mmol) solution was added to the mixture. The reaction mixture was stirred continuously at reflux temperature. During the reaction, aliquots were periodically removed from the reaction vessel and the reaction progress was monitored by gas chromatography (GC) and hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR). The yield of the final product was the average of two independent experiments.