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Peifluoioalkoxy (PFA) fluoiocaibon lesins aie designed to meet industry s needs in chemical, electrical, and mechanical appHcations. These melt processible copolymers contain a fluorocarbon backbone in the main chain and randomly distributed perfluorinated ether side chains ... 

The toxicology of perfluorinated surfactants varies greatly most are harmless, whilst some are amongst the most toxic non-proteins known, the structural differences between the two often being relatively slight. Hence caution is needed in their use, even though they are so strongly surface-active that they can be used in much smaller quantities than other surfactants. 

PTFE and other perfluorinated thermoplastics are not sensitive to moisture or UV. Stabilization is not needed. 

As mentioned in the previous section, there are good reasons to search for new reaction conditions for Heck and related reactions, which permit catalyst recovery, the use of less toxic solvents, and simpler product recovery. The use of liquid or supercritical (SC) CO2 addresses all of these issues [171]. Until recently, however, the use of supercritical COj had been limited to organometallic Pd complexes functionalized with perfluorinated ligands [172-174], due to the limited solubility of metal colloids in CO2, and often required the use of water as a co-solvent [175]. The work described here shows that dendrimers can be used to solubilize Pd nanoclusters in liquid and SC CO2. This new finding opens the door to the combined benefits of a catalyst that promotes Heck couplings, but without the need for toxic ligands or solvents. 

As will happen, for example, with perfluorotriethylamine, a substance that is a good alternative reaction medium may be found for reactions and it can be easily recycled by simple extractive workup (Nakano and Kitazume, 1999). One of the most important issues in twenty-first century scientific society is the environmental problem. Thus far, there have been increasing demands for substitutes for toxic and/or harmful solvents like CH2CI2. Recently, inert and less toxic fluorous (perfluorinated) fluids have been recognized and are attracting attention as new alternative solvents (Fish, 1999). This fact shows the need to survey the scope and limitations of the utility of these liquids as alternative reaction media for reactions, which are of great current interest due to their unique reactivities and selectivities. 

The following subchapters cover various solid superacids, including perfluorinated sulfonic acid resins (Nafion resins). Furthermore, in the past, various attempts have been made to obtain solid superacids by either (a) enhancing the intrinsic acidity of a solid acid by treatment with a suitable co-acid or (b) physically or chemically binding a liquid superacid to an otherwise inert surface. We will briefly review some of these attempts because most of these catalysts rapidly lose activity and need to be regenerated. 

Ionomers are used to prepare membranes for a variety of applications including dialysis, reverse osmosis, and in electrolytic cells for the chlor-alkali industry. This latter application needs materials that show good chemical resistance and ionomers based on perfluorinated backbones with minor amounts of sulfonic or carboxylic acids are ideal. They also show good ion-exchange properties. 

The addition of many classes of IPRs leads to a modification of the eluent pH. Volatile amines, greatly appreciated for their volatility in IPC-MS use, increase the eluent pH. Conversely, using perfluorinated acids of different chain length as IPRs for basic analytes involves a concomitant lowering of the eluent pH that in turn provides the protonation the basic analytes need under IPC conditions. The IPR counter ion is also important when dealing with eluent pH for example, the behavior of tetrabutylam-monium hydroxide would be very different from that of the corresponding chloride. 

For the ozonolysis of linear alkenes only alk-l-encs should be used to avoid product mixtures as the resulting formaldehyde or formic acid are readily separated. This type of reaction is also a successful method for the preparation of perfluorinated carboxylic acids.The advantage over the oxidation with potassium permanganate is that the process does not form solid byproducts which are diflicult to separate. A disadvantage of this procedure is the fact that two reaction steps arc needed to obtain the required product. 

The need to extend the liquid range of perfluorinated systems to very high molecular weights was satisfied by the important introduction of perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) [72]... 

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