Trifluoroacetic anhydride, 99+%, Thermo Scientific Chemicals

General References:

1. Trifluoroacetylating agent for protection of alcohols and amines: Helv. Chim. Acta., 37, 443 (1954); Tetrahedron, 43, 5583 (1987); Tetrahedron Lett., 28, 4737 (1987), useful, e.g. as volatile derivatives in GC: J. Chromat., 43, 129 (1969); 61, 225 (1971); 93, 223, 447 (1974); D. R. Knapp, Handbook of Analytical Derivatisation Reactions, Wiley, N.Y. (1979); Handbook of Derivatives for Chromatography, 2nd ed., K. Blau and J. M. Halket, Eds., Wiley, Chichester (1993).
2. Trifluoroacetyl esters are rapidly hydrolyzed at pH 7: Tetrahedron Lett., 1039 (1963). Trifluoroacetamides are also readily hydrolyzed e.g. by mild base; selective cleavage of a trifluoroacetamide can be achieved in the presence of a methyl ester: J. Org. Chem., 54, 2498 (1989). For the racemization-free removal of the N-trifluoroacetyl group from peptides by NaBH₄, see: Chem. Ber., 103, 2437 (1970).
3. In pyridine and dichloromethane or ether, converts acid chlorides to trifluoromethyl ketones in good yields via a trifluoroacyl ketene intermediate: Tetrahedron, 51, 2573 (1995). The method has been extended to the synthesis of a range of trifluoromethylated heterocycles: Tetrahedron, 51, 2585 (1995):
4. Mild conversion of aryl halides to aryl trifluoromethyl ketones via Pd catalyzed stannylation: Synlett, 165 (1995).
5. In pyridine, dehydrates carboxamides or aldoximes to nitriles: Tetrahedron Lett., 1813 (1977); Synthesis, 56, (1979). With triethylamine, effects the dehydration of aldols to enones, where other methods are less successful: Org. Synth. Coll., 8, 210 (1993).
6. For the ɑ-trifluoroacetylation of a phosphonium salt in a route to perfluoroalkyl acetylenes, see: Org. Synth. Coll., 9, 436 (1998). For reaction scheme, see (Ethoxycarbonyl methyl) triphenyl phosphonium bromide, A16347.