1st Edition
by Herbert W. Roesky (Editor), Karl Barry Sharpless (Foreword)
The definitive guide to creating fluorine-based compounds―and the materials of tomorrow
Discovered
as an element by the French chemist Henri Moissan in 1886, through
electrolysis of potassium fluoride in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride―"le
fluor," or fluorine, began its chemical history as a substance both
elusive and dangerous. With a slight pale yellow hue, fluorine is at
room temperature a poisonous diatomic gas. Resembling a spirit from a
chemical netherworld, fluorine is highly reactive, difficult to handle,
yet very versatile as a reagent―with the power to form compounds with
almost any other element.
Comprising 20% of pharmaceutical
products and 30% of agrochemical compounds, as well as playing a key
role in electric cars, electronic devices, and space technology,
compounds containing fluorine have grown in importance across the globe.
Learning how to safely handle fluorine in the preparation of innovative
new materials―with valuable new properties―is of critical importance to
chemists today. Bringing together the research and methods of leading
scientists in the fluorine field, Efficient Preparations of Fluorine Compounds
is the definitive manual to creating, and understanding the reaction
mechanisms integral to a wide variety of fluorine compounds. With
sixty-eight contributed chapters, the book's extensive coverage
includes:
- Preparation of Elemental Fluorine
- Synthesis Methods for Exotic Inorganic Fluorides with Varied Applications
- Introduction of Fluorine into Compounds via Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Reactions
- Direct Fluorination of Organic Compounds with Elemental Fluorine
- Efficient Preparations of Bioorganic Fluorine Compounds
- Asymmetric Fluorocyclization Reactions
- Preparations of Rare Earth Fluorosulfides and Oxyfluorosulfides
The
book offers methods and results that can be reproduced by students
involved in advanced studies, as well as practicing chemists,
pharmaceutical scientists, biologists, and environmental researchers.
The only chemical resource of its kind, Efficient Preparations of Fluorine Compounds―from
its first experiment to its last―is a unique window into the centuries
old science of fluorine and the limitless universe of fluorine-based
compounds.
