Copper-catalyzed nucleophilic trifluoromethylation of propargylic halides.

Reactions of propargylic halides with trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane in the presence of a catalytic amount of copper(I) thiophene-2-carboxylate (CuTC) have been found to give the corresponding trifluoromethylated products in good to high yields with a high selectivity.