Lawrence A Ford et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), (20)(20), 2596-2597 (2003-11-05)
The reaction of the perfluoroalkenylzinc reagent, CF2=CFZnBr, with 1,3,5-tribromobenzene in the presence of a catalytic amount of Pd(Ph3)4 yielded a novel trifunctional monomer 1,3,5-tris(alpha,beta,beta-trifluorovinyl)benzene (1).