Visible-light-induced defluorinative carbonylative coupling of alkyl iodides with α-trifluoromethyl substituted styrenes.

A visible-light-mediated defluorinative carbonylative cross-coupling of alkyl iodides with α-trifluoromethyl styrenes has been developed. The reaction occurs at room temperature under blue light irradiation, and various gem-difluoroalkenes were obtained in moderate to good yields. Synthetic transformations of the obtained product were performed as well.