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THE often surprising toxicity of several of the fluorinated organic compounds is well known1. A number of rather diverse structural types have been found to impart high toxicity although seemingly closely related types have been found to have rather low toxicities. Unfortunately, this varied behaviour of fluorinated compounds has occasionally become tragically established. While the modus operandi is now known for types such as monofluorides2, phosphofluoridates3, and active halogen compounds, for example, α-haloketones, much less is understood about fluorinated alkenes4.
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COOK, E., PIERCE, J. Toxicology of Fluoro-olefins. Nature 242, 337–338 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/242337a0
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