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Synfacts 2008(11): 1171-1171  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1083444
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Perfluorinated Compounds

Contributor(s): Hisashi Yamamoto, Joshua P. Abell
C. Douvris, O. V. Ozerov*
Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
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23 October 2008 (online)

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Significance

Partially fluorinated hydrocarbons and perfluorinated hydrocarbons are part of the main contributors to the ‘super greenhouse ­gases’. Additionally, perfluorooctanesulfonic acid derivatives that are used in surfactants were shown to be toxic. The transformation of these compounds to the unreactive hydrocarbons could potentially have a huge impact on the environmental effects of these substances. The authors of this paper have provided methods for the derivatization of these partially and perfluorinated compounds to their unfunctionalized counterparts.