The Journal of Fluorine Chemistry contains original papers and short preliminary communications describing
both pure and applied research on the chemistry and applications of fluorine, and of compounds where fluorine exercises significant effects.
The Journal of Fluorine
Chemistry covers
inorganic, organic, organometallic and physical chemistry and also includes papers
on
biochemistry and environmental industrial chemistry. Preparative and physico-chemical
investigations as well as theoretical,
structural
and mechanistic aspects are covered. Review papers and
fluorine chemistry
syntheses are also published, although it is useful to contact
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"...gave needles: mp 83-85 °C; [α]D25 -110° (c 1.4, CHC13);
IR (KBr); v 1730(s) and 1260 (ester), 860 and 840 (Me3Si), and 710(m) cm-1 (Ph); 1H NMR..."
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1H NMR spectral
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5 Hz, H-21), 4.34 (1H, q, J6α, 7α= 4.5 Hz, J6α, 7β=2Hz, H-6), 4.21 (1H, m, W1/2= 18Hz, H-3α).
19F NMR (56.4MHz, CC13F): δ -88.0 (m, 1F, NF), -68.3 (dt,
3F, J=13.5 Hz, CF3N), -82.0 (tt, 3F, J= 133.5 Hz, CF2,CF2,CF2,CF3).
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Journal Article: [1] V.A.
Petrov, C.G. Krespan, B.E.Smart, J. Fluorine Chem. 77 (1996) 139-142. Patent: [2] E.T. McBee, O.R. Pierce, H.M. Metz,
US Patent 2 899 454 (1959). Abstract of paper presented at meeting: [3] J.G.Riess, in: Proceedings of the 219th American
Chemical Society meeting in blood substitutes, liquid breathing, and more, all with fluorocarbons, San Francisco, CA, 27 March 2000,
Fluorine Division, Paper 17. Book: [4] W.A. Sheppard, C.M. Sharts, Organic Fluorine Chemistry, W.A. Benjamin, New York,
1997, pp. 39-96. An article in an edited book: [5] H.J. Eméleus, Metallic compounds containing fluorocarbon
radicals and organometallic compounds containing fluorine, in: J.H. Simons (Ed.), Fluorine Chemistry, Vol. 2, Academic Press, New York,
1954, pp.321-336 (Footnote).
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