New routes to hexafluorocyclopentadiene and related compounds

RR Soelch, GW Mauer, DM Lemal

Index: Soelch, Richard R.; Mauer, George W.; Lemal, David M. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1985 , vol. 50, # 26 p. 5845 - 5852

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Abstract

Hexafluorocyclopentadiene (1) has been synthesized in two steps from pentafluorophenol (2) by fluorination followed by flash vacuum pyrolysis of the resulting hexafluorocyclohexadienones 3 and 4. Similar pyrolysis of 6- chloropentafluorocyclohexadienone (13) gave an equilibrium mixture of 1-and 2- chloropentafluorocyclopentadiene (15 and 16), presumably via the 5-ChlOrO isomer. ...