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Nature Chemical Biology 5, 26–28 (1 January 2009) | doi:10.1038/nchembio.128

Chemo-enzymatic fluorination of unactivated organic compounds

Andrea Rentmeister , Frances H Arnold & Rudi Fasan

Fluorination has gained an increasingly important role in drug discovery and development. Here we describe a versatile strategy that combines cytochrome P450–catalyzed oxygenation with deoxofluorination to achieve mono- and polyfluorination of nonreactive sites in a variety of organic scaffolds.