Abstract
Photochemical transformation of saturated fluorocarbons into tetrabutylammonium enolates has been improved, and a method employing ketyls as reductants has been developed that accomplishes the same chemistry without light. Enolates have been isolated as enol methyl ethers, from which they can be efficiently regenerated with tetrabutylammonium iodide. In other cases, enolates have been isolated as the corresponding ketone or stable enol. Fluorocarbon LUMO energies correlate with their reactivity and serve as a guide to the choice of ketyl. Use of this chemistry for fluoropolymer surface modification is discussed.
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