Process for preparing phenethylamines and novel chemical compounds

A process for preparing fluorine-containing phenethylamines of the Formula

• in which
• one of the radicals R1 and R2 represents fluorine, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy, tetrafluoroethoxy or pentafluoroethoxy and the other represents hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, fluorine, trifluoromethyl, trifluoromethoxy, tetrafluoroethoxy or pcntafluoroethoxy or
• R1 and R2 together represent —O—CF2—O—, —O—CF2—CF2— or —O—CF2—CF2—O— and
• R3 represents hydrogen, chlorine, C1-C6-alkyl or C1-C6-alkoxy,
• which comprises in a first step reacting a substituted bromobenzene of the Formula
• in which
• R1, R2 and R3 are as defined under Formula (I)
• with acrylamide in the presence of a palladium catalyst,
• in a second step hydrogenating catalytically the resulting arylacrylamide of the Formula
• in which
• the radicals R1, R2 and R3 are as defined under Formula (I) and
• in a third step rearranging the arylamide obtained in step two of the Formula
• in which
• R1, R2 and R3 are as defined under Formula (I).