Synthesis of Fluorine-Containing Aryl(halo)boranes from Potassium Aryl(fluoro)borates

Fluorine-containing aryldihalogenoboranes have been obtained by the reaction of boron and aluminum chlorides and bromides with potassium aryltrifluoroborates K[ArBF3] under mild conditions. In a similar way, bis(pentafluorophenyl)halogenoboranes have been synthesized by the reaction with K[(C6F5)2BF2]. The reaction of K[C6F5BF3] with AlBr3 affords a mixture of C6F5BF2 and C6F5BCl2 due to fast conversion of AlBr3 to AlBrCl2. The inductive and resonance parameters of BCl2 and BBr2 groups were calculated.