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Trifluoromethyl hypofluorite
Chemical compound From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trifluoromethyl hypofluorite is an organofluorine compound with the chemical formula CF3OF. It exists as a colorless gas at room temperature and is highly toxic.[1] It is a rare example of a hypofluorite (compound with an O−F bond). It can be seen as a similar chemical compound to methanol where every hydrogen atom is replaced by a fluorine atom. It is a trifluoromethyl ester of hypofluorous acid. It is prepared by the reaction of fluorine gas with carbon monoxide:
- 2 F2 + CO → CF3OF
The gas hydrolyzes only slowly at neutral pH.
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Use in organic chemistry
The compound is a source of electrophilic fluorine. It has been used for the preparation of α-fluoroketones from silyl enol ethers.[2] Behaving like a pseudohalogen, it adds to ethylene to give the ether:
- CF3OF + CH2CH2 → CF3OCH2CH2F
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