Nolan M. BetterleySutthichat KerdphonSuppisak ChaturonrutsameeSopanat KongsriprapanPanida SurawatanawongDarunee SoorukramManat PohmakotrPher G. AnderssonVichai ReutrakulChutima KuhakarnKasetsart UniversityMahidol UniversityArrhenius LaboratoryInternational Laboratories Corp.2019-08-232019-08-232018-08-01Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. Vol.7, No.8 (2018), 1642-1647219358072-s2.0-85051440073https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/45485© 2018 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Bismuth(III) trifluoromethanesulfonate [Bi(OTf)3] mediated mild electrophilic aromatic formylation utilizing difluoro(phenylsulfanyl)methane (PhSCF2H) as a formylating agent in hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFIP) as a recyclable ionizing solvent has been developed. The active formylating species was generated via C−F bond cleavage and was characterized to be a bis(phenylsulfanyl)methyl cation by experimental and computational 1H and 13C NMR.Mahidol UniversityChemistryArticleSCOPUS10.1002/ajoc.201800313