Recent Development of the Xenon Difluoride Method

Recent research indicates that the XeFj/TFE method can also be used for inorganic surfaces, which would be a very important development. 

Xenon difluoride has proved to be an effective fluorinating agent for surface fluorination of polymers. 

The technique of surface fluorination with Xep2 is much less sophisticated, expensive, and hazardous than the conventional F2/N2 treatment. 

The XeFj polymer surface fluorination technique can be easily applied at manufacturing companies that have no experience in dealing with fluorine. 

The laboratory results that have been obtained point to several interesting possible applications of Xep2/TFE method. 

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Xenon.—Several studies have been reported by Russian workers on the reactions of xenon difluoride in aqueous solution. The oxidation of phenol to p-benzo-quinone is suggested to involve an intermediate in the hydrolysis of xenon difluoride, possibly xenon monoxide. The rate of disappearance of xenon difluoride in the presence of phenol is the same as the rate of hydrolysis in the absence of the latter. A competition method has been used to study the role of this postulated intermediate. The kinetics of reaction of xenon difluoride with 2,3,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-l-oxyl have been studied. In a review of recent developments in the chemistry of some electronegative elements there is a brief summary of fluxional behaviour in the proposed tetramer of XeF in solution. ... 

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