Recyclable fluorous cinchona alkaloid ester as a chiral promoter for asymmetric fluorination of ß-ketoesters.

A fluorous cinchona alkaloid ester has been developed as a chiral promoter for the asymmetric fluorination of ß-ketoesters. It has comparable reactivity and selectivity to the nonfluorous versions of cinchona alkaloids and can be easily recovered from the reaction mixture by simple fluorous solid-phase extraction (F-SPE) and used for the next round of reaction without further purification.