We report a palladium-catalyzed carbonylative difluoromethylation of aryl iodides with (DMPU) 2 Zn(CF 2 H) 2 under 1 atm CO, giving aryl difluoromethyl ketones in good yields, with broad tolerance, late-stage modification, and facile derivatization.
Wei et al. (Thu,) studied this question.