A top-down approach to synthesising high-value fluorocarbons

氟碳化合物赋予主体分子高稳定性、溶解性和独特反应性的能力使其在农用化学品、药物、聚合物和表面活性剂中具有不可估量的价值。它们的坚固性也使它们具有环境持久性。没有工业上使用的方法来重新利用或回收氟碳化合物。该项目旨在产生选择性活化多氟烃中碳-氟键的新方法，使其能够掺入或重新用于高价值化学品和/或易于衍生化以获得大量新的氟碳化合物产品。预期成果将使新的加工方法能够增加氟碳化合物的价值，同时防止其环境释放。

Fluorocarbons' ability to impart high stability, solubility, and unique reactivity to host molecules renders them invaluable in agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, polymers and surfactants. Their robustness also renders them environmentally persistent. There are no industrially utilised methods for the re-purposing or recycling of fluorocarbons. This project aims to generate new methods for the selective activation of carbon-fluorine bonds in polyfluorocarbons, allowing their incorporation or repurposing into high value chemicals and/or easy derivitisation to access a plethora of new fluorocarbon products. Expected outcomes will allow new processing methods to value add to fluorocarbons while preventing their environmental release.