On treatment with Grignard reagents, trifluoroacetyltriphenylsilane was converted into 2,2-difluoro enol silyl ethers in almost quantitative yields. As a synthetic application of the 2,2-difluoro enol silyl ether, a novel fluorinated brassinosteroid was synthesized.
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