Prospects of synthetic electrochemistry in the development of new methods of electrocatalytic fluoroalkylation

Principal achievements and modern trends in the development of new methods of electrocatalytic fluoroalkylation are analysed and generalised. Possibilities and advantages of the electrochemical preparation of fluoroalkyl compounds are demonstrated. The attention is focused on the fluoroalkylation of olefins, σ-fluororganonickel complexes reactivity, aromatic perfluoroalkylation, fluoroalkyl phosphines and phosphine oxides synthesis, ligand directed C–H-fluoroalkylation.