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Coupling reaction of β-perfluoroalkyl-substituted alkyl halides with Grignard reagents such as phenyl-, vinyl-, allyl-, benzyl-, and alkyl-magnesium halides was catalyzed by copper salts or complexes to give the corresponding cross-coupling products in good yields. α,ω-Diiodoalkane bearing a polyfluoroalkylene moiety also reacted with 2 equiv. of Grignard reagent in the presence of copper catalyst to give α,ω-bi-functionalized product.

β-Perfluoroalkyl-substituted alkyl halides reacted with organostamnanes such as allylphenylethynyl-, β-phenylethenyl-, and phenyl-tributyltin in the presence of palladium-phosphine complexes to give the corresponding cross-coupling products in good yields. When the reaction was carried out under CO pressure, carbonylative coupling of the halides took place affording the corresponding fluorine-contaming ketones in good yields.

Dehydrogenative silylation of terminal alkynes with hydrosilanes proceeds in the presence of iridium catalyst to afford the corresponding silylacetylenes. When phenylacetylene and triethylsilane were heated in dry DME in the presence of Ir4(CO)12–PPh3, (2-phenylethynyl)triethylsilane was obtained in 96% yield with little of hydrosilylated products. The present method is applicable for a variety of terminal alkynes and hydrosilanes to give the corresponding silylacetylenes in good yields with high selectivities.

Introduction of fluorine atom(s) at the γ- and δ-positions of alkyl iodides increased the selectivities toward palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction with organostannanes. A similar effect of fluorine substituents on the selectivities was also observed in the palladium-catalyzed carbonylative coupling reaction of alkyl iodides with phenyltributyltin under CO pressure.