Natural Science Forum / Chemistry / Organic Synthesis / July 2006

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

I am trying to epoxidate an allylated phenol. I used mCPBA with CH2Cl2
as the solvent. How do I work up this reaction? Can I extract the
mCPBA? Is the epoxide stable enough for purification over silica gel?

Please help me to understand this.
Example. You wish to prepare a 2mM solution of NADP, and find that
anhydrous weight of NADP is 743. But you have purchased monosodium salt
containing four molecules of water, and the label states that the