Electrophilic fluorination of organic compounds

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Saturated organic compounds containing a hydrogen atom bound to a tertiary carbon atom may be electrophilically fluorinated by reacti?n with an electrophilic fluorinating agent such as molecular fluorine or trifluoromethyl hypofluorite under conditions whereby the formation of free fluorine radicals is suppressed, e.g. by the presence of a free radical inhibitor such as oxygen or nitrobenzene the reactants, being substantially homogeneously dispersed in a liquid medium, e.g. A solvent medium such as fluorotrichloromethane or chloroform/fluorotrichloromethane. so that the said hydrogen atom is electrophilically replaced by a fluorine atom. The fluoroination is highly selective and, in the …