Synthesis of this Fluorocarbon

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S. Kitty - 28 Jul 2006 11:45 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering if someone could suggest to me how to synthesize this
fluorocarbon:

http://shrodingerskitty.googlepages.com/Crazyfluorocarbon.gif

I have lab tech experience (ie, I'm comfortable making this, unless I
have to deal with Fluorine in a gaseuous state), but my theory is a
quite rusty, it's been a few years since I last took an Organic Chem
course.

I am aware that it's technically not an organic molecule, but I figure
the reagents will be.

Thanks,

S. Kitty

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Mathias Rocher - 31 Jul 2006 09:10 GMT

S. Kitty wrote :

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm wondering if someone could suggest to me how to synthesize this
> fluorocarbon:
>
> http://shrodingerskitty.googlepages.com/Crazyfluorocarbon.gif

It has already been synthesized:
Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 123 (2003) 233-236
I give you the link if you have access to this journal:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6TGD-492VTXB-1-B&_cdi=5
252&_user=122868&_orig=search&_coverDate=10%2F01%2F2003&_qd=1&_sk=998769997&view
=c&wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkzS&md5=54742f0a0d69d3af7e386dac32bd640b&ie=/sdarticle.pdf

> I have lab tech experience (ie, I'm comfortable making this, unless I
> have to deal with Fluorine in a gaseuous state), but my theory is a
> quite rusty, it's been a few years since I last took an Organic Chem
> course

Well, I'm afraid you won't be confortable doing this because it is off
course a perfluoration of tripentyl amine using gaseous F2...

> I am aware that it's technically not an organic molecule, but I figure
> the reagents will be.

That's a question of vocabulary : I would call that an "organic"
molecule. But an inorganic chemist would certainly claim it as
inorganic !

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Synthesis of this Fluorocarbon