The use of elemental fluorine in organic synthesis has not yet achieved the stage of being a standard procedure, but on the other hand it is not the frightening proposition it used to be until recently. It can serve as a source for fluorine radicals,'electrophilic fluorine, 2 and nucleophilic fluorine generated in situ. 3 But elemental fluorine is more than that. Recently, we have shown that it can serve as a vehicle for performing difficult chemical ...
[Banerjee, Amalendu; Banerjee, Gopal Chandra; Dutt, Sachchidananda; Banerjee, Santa (Mrs.); Samaddar, Haraprasad Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 1980 , vol. 57, # 6 p. 640 - 642]
