Modern Synthesis Processes and Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds: Progress in Fluorine Science

Modern Synthesis Processes and Reactivity of Fluorinated Compounds focuses on the exceptional character of fluorine and fluorinated compounds. This comprehensive work explores examples taken from all classes of fluorine chemistry and illustrates the extreme reactivity of fluorinating media and the peculiar synthesis routes to fluorinated materials.

The book provides advanced and updated information on the latest synthesis routes to fluorocompounds and the involved reaction mechanisms. Special attention is given to the unique reactivity of fluorine and fluorinated media, along with the correlation of those properties to valuable applications of fluorinated compounds.

Contains quality content edited, and contributed, by leading scholars in the fieldPresents applied guidance on the preparation of original fluorinated compounds, potentially transferable from the lab scale to industrial applicationsProvides practical synthesis information for a wide audience interested in fluorine compounds in many branches of chemistry, materials science, and physics

1. The Cosmic Origin of Fluorine: An Astronomer's View on Fluorine Synthesis 2. The Fluorine Atom in Health Care and Agrochemical Applications: A Contribution to Life Science 3. Industrial Syntheses of Hydrohaloolefins and Related Products 4. Electrochemical Fluorination: A Powerful Tool for the Preparation of Organofluorine Compounds 5. Once Upon a Time Was the Langlois' Reagent: A “Sleeping Beauty” 6. Toward CF₃S Group: From Trifluoromethylation of Sulfides to Direct Trifluoromethylthiolation 7. Nucleophilic Di- and Trifluoromethylation of CO and CN Bonds 8. Oxidative Trifluoromethylation and Trifluoromethylthiolation 9. Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination 10. Development of Electrophilic Trifluoromethylating Reagents 11. New Nucleophilic Fluoroalkylations 12. Continuous Flow Selective Direct Fluorination Using Fluorine Gas 13. Synthesis of Fluorinated Nitrogen-Containing Compounds Through Superelectrophilic Activation in Superacid HF/SbF₅ 14. Visible Light–Induced (Per)fluoroalkylation by Photoredox Catalysis 15. Synthesis of Side Chain Fluorinated Amino Acids and Their Effects on the Properties of Peptides and Proteins 16. Ionic Liquids and Polymers for Battery and Fuel Cells 17. Strategic Incorporation of Fluorine for Drug Discovery and Development 18. Telomerization Reaction of 3,3,3-Trifluoropropene 19. High Oxidation States in Transition Metal Fluorides 20. Photochemical Syntheses of Fluorides in Liquid Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride 21. Sol–Gel Synthesis of Metal Fluorides: Reactivity and Mechanisms 22. Solution-Based Synthesis of Nano-Sized TiO₂ Anatase in Fluorinating Media 23. Ionic Liquid Materials Based on Fluoroanions 24. Reactivity of Surface Fluorinated TiO₂ and TiAl Particles 25. Chemical and Electrochemical Stability of Copper in Molten KF-2HF