Main observation and conclusion
We reported for the first time that ethyl bromodifluoroacetate directly reacts with azaindole without transition metal catalysis to produce a difluoromethyl protected 5-aldehyde group product in one step.It is worth mentioning that the reacted aldehyde group is only formed at the 5 position.In addition,this method has good substrate applicability and functional group tolerance.Finally,we al-so carried out some mechanism auxiliary experiments,which confirmed that the aldehyde-based carbon comes from ethyl bromo-difluoroacetate.