Roesky Efficient Preparations of Fluorine Compounds

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-40942-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten, E-Book

The definitive guide to creating fluorine-basedcompounds--and the materials of tomorrow
Discovered as an element by the French chemist Henri Moissan in1886, through electrolysis of potassium fluoride in anhydroushydrogen fluoride--"le fluor," or fluorine, began its chemicalhistory as a substance both elusive and dangerous. With a slightpale yellow hue, fluorine is at room temperature a poisonousdiatomic gas. Resembling a spirit from a chemical netherworld,fluorine is highly reactive, difficult to handle, yet veryversatile as a reagent--with the power to form compounds withalmost any other element.
Comprising 20% of pharmaceutical products and 30% ofagrochemical compounds, as well as playing a key role in electriccars, electronic devices, and space technology, compoundscontaining fluorine have grown in importance across the globe.Learning how to safely handle fluorine in the preparation ofinnovative new materials--with valuable newproperties--is of critical importance to chemists today.Bringing together the research and methods of leading scientists inthe fluorine field, Efficient Preparations of FluorineCompounds is the definitive manual to creating, andunderstanding the reaction mechanisms integral to a wide variety offluorine compounds. With sixty-eight contributed chapters, thebook's extensive coverage includes:
* Preparation of Elemental Fluorine
* Synthesis Methods for Exotic Inorganic Fluorides with VariedApplications
* Introduction of Fluorine into Compounds via Electrophilic andNucleophilic Reactions
* Direct Fluorination of Organic Compounds with ElementalFluorine
* Efficient Preparations of Bioorganic Fluorine Compounds
* Asymmetric Fluorocyclization Reactions
* Preparations of Rare Earth Fluorosulfides andOxyfluorosulfides
The book offers methods and results that can be reproduced bystudents involved in advanced studies, as well as practicingchemists, pharmaceutical scientists, biologists, and environmentalresearchers. The only chemical resource of its kind, EfficientPreparations of Fluorine Compounds--from its firstexperiment to its last--is a unique window into the centuriesold science of fluorine and the limitless universe offluorine-based compounds.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roesky, Herbert W.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sharpless, Karl Barry

Über Autor(innen)

HERBERT W. ROESKY, PhD, is Professor Emeritus ofChemistry at the University of Göttingen and past president ofthe Academy of Sciences of Göttingen. He is a recipient of theACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry and the H.Moissan Award in Fluorine Chemistry.