Fluorine nitrous oxide

The investigation of methyl azide, methyl nitrate, and fluorine nitrate by electron diffraction is shown to lead to configurations of the molecules corresponding in each case to resonance between two important valence-bond structures. The unimportance of a third otherwise reasonable structure for these molecules as well as for nitrous oxide is ascribed to instability due to the presence of electric charges of the same sign on adjacent atoms. It is shown that the differ-... 

See Fluorine Non-metal oxides Hydrogen, Nitrous oxide... 

Nitrous oxide reacts with dioxygen difluoride at ordinary temperatures forming various fluorinated products, such as FNO, FNO2, and FONO2 ... 

Desflurane is a fluorinated methyl ethyl ether identical to isoflurane except for the substitution of a chlorine by a fluorine atom (Figure 3.2). It is the least soluble of all the volatile anaesthetics with a similar blood/gas solubility to nitrous oxide (0.42). It is non-flammable under all clinical conditions. The vapour pressure of desflurane approaches 1 atm at 23°C making controlled administration impossible with a conventional vaporiser. A desflurane vaporiser is an electronically controlled pressurised device that delivers an accurately metered dose of vaporised desflurane into a stream of fresh gases passing through it. The MAC of desflurane (6.5% in adults) is the highest of any modern fluorinated agent but in common with these the value decreases in the elderly and in other circumstances (see below). 

High-purity nitrogen oxide trifluoride has been obtained by fluorolysis of the nickel salt. By first forming this compound, troublesome impurities such as carbon tetrafluoride (from the fluorine) and nitrous oxide (from the nitric oxide) are avoided. The mixture, with nitrosyl fluoride and some nitryl fluoride, is purified chemically by titrating the gas with boron trifluoride, when both of the strongly basic oxyfluorides are removed as fluoroborates ... 

The preferred inhalation agents are those that are minimally irritant and nonflammable, and comprise nitrous oxide and the fluorinated hydrocarbons, e.g., isoflurane. 

The compressed gases used today include nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. The liquefied gases that once were used include the Freons and Gentrons , which were fluorinated chlorinated hydrocarbons. Today most of these products have been replaced by chlorinated hydrocarbons, which are predominantly inert. 

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