Perfluoroalkanes

The continuing advances in perfluorination technology now allows the synthesis of a greater variety of perfluoroalkanes, for which a chemistry, involving carbon-fluorine bond activation by a variety of electron donors, is emerging. Of course, the preparation of multi functional perfluoro-alkenes and aromatic systems in two steps from commodity hydrocarbon feedstocks via perfluoroalkanes is also a very useful and effective example of carbon-hydrogen bond activation, a topic that has received considerable worldwide interest.147,148 Perfluoroalkanes have, additionally, over the years, been adapted for use for many commercial and synthetic laboratory applications and these continue to grow.