Highly fluorinated aromatic compounds and their derivatives will react with carbanions produced from fluorinated olefins and fluoride ion, with the formation of polyfluoroalkyl derivatives, in a process which is the nucleophilic equivalent of the Friedel-Crafts reaction in hydrocarbon chemistry. Reaction occurs between hexafluoropropene and pentafluoropyridine, pentafluoronitrobenzene, and other activated systems like ...
