Selective Incorporation of Fluorine in Pyrazoles

Pyrazoles are highly essential heterocyclic structures prevalent in biologically active products used widely throughout various disciplines of chemical industry-including medicine and agriculture. The efficacy of these pyrazole species is enhanced through the introduction of fluorine and corresponding functionalities; therefore, synthetic methods for the fluorination of these structures is highly appealing which follows the overall trend of increasing interest in fluorination chemistry. Toward assimilating the known techniques for fluorine incorporation to the pyrazole heterocyclic structure we have reviewed both the new and traditional synthetic approaches to the assembly of functionalized pyrazole derivatives. Specifically, efficient synthetic methods and regioselective incorporation of fluorine and fluorine containing functional groups into different pyrazole ring systems are examined.