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The Chemistry of Highly Fluorinated
Compounds
The featured molecules for January come from the paper “Fluorous
Compounds and Their Role in Separation Chemistry” by
Maria Angeles Ubeda and Roman Dembinski. This paper explores
the use of highly fluorinated compounds as solvents, catalysts,
and reagents. Additions to the molecule collection include
most of the species from this paper. Students who have access
to computational software might be asked to measure barriers
to rotation about the bonds attached to the aromatic rings
in molecules 1, 3, and 6, or to explore the question of
planarity in the center region of molecule 4. The arguments
in the paper might also be clearer to students by comparing
the charge distribution of the fluorous compound with that
of the corresponding perhydro species.
Viewing Requirements
In addition to the static images, two fully manipulable versions
(Jmol, MDLChime)
of these molecules appear below.
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