A parallel, offset-stacked orientation was found in the crystal packing of E,E-1,4-di(o-trifluoromethyl)phenyl-1,3-butadiene. UV-irradiation of the powered crystalline sample resulted in a quantitative conversion to a single [2 + 2] cycloaddition product.

Both diastereomeric isomers of epoxides with high optical purity are obtained when camphor N-methacryloylpyrazolidinone (1a) and N-tigloylpyrazolidinone (1b) are treated with a urea hydrogen peroxide/TFAA and methyl(trifluoromethyl)dioxirane, respectively.

A variety of cyclopropenes undergo direct silylation using (trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane in the presence of a copper-bisphosphine catalyst; under these conditions, cyclopropenes that might otherwise undergo ring-opening are silylated efficiently.

The indirect electroreductive coupling of aryl halides and pyrroles was successfully conducted using a catalytic amount of perylene bisimide as a mediator in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis((trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl)imide ([EMIM]NTf2)/DMSO.

The first highly enantioselective iso-Pictet-Spengler reaction of C-2-linked o-aminobenzylindoles with trifluoromethyl ketones was developed using chiral spirocyclic phosphoric acids as organocatalysts, which afforded optically active benzazepinoindoles bearing trifluoromethylated quaternary stereocenters.

An organocatalytic enantioselective addition reaction of cyclic ketoimines with phosphites has been developed for the first time. The process, catalyzed by Soós' quinine thiourea, affords synthetically and medicinally interesting enantioenriched trifluoromethyl dihydroquinazolinones in high yields and with high enantioselectivities.