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Hexafluorobenzene

Nature volume 178, pages 199–200 (1956)Cite this article

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THE application of gas–liquid partition chromatography to organic fluorine chemistry1,2 has enabled us to extend our studies on dehydrofluorination to a nonafluorocyclohexane (I) (b.p. 92°) which has been obtained3,4 by passage of benzene vapour over cobaltic fluoride at about 150°. With concentrated aqueous potassium hydroxide, this polyfluoride (I) gave a complex mixture (b.p. 60–90°) which was shown by analytical gas-chromatography to contain nine individual components. These were separated by use of the preparative-scale gas chromatographic column, and the structures of some of them have been determined by spectroscopic examination, oxidative degradation, addition reactions, etc.

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    J. A. GODSELL, M. STACEY & J. C. TATLOW

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GODSELL, J., STACEY, M. & TATLOW, J. Hexafluorobenzene. Nature 178, 199–200 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178199a0

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