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fluorination

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fluorination
[floo͡r′inā′shən]
the addition of fluorine to a compound, such as those commonly found in topical corticosteroids.


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Larger containers have traditionally been made from polyethylene and first must be sent for fluorination so they can hold aggressive chemicals, increasing costs.
The company also has a selective direct fluorination technology to replace any atom in a molecule of organic compounds with a fluorine atom by effectively controlling highly reactive fluorine gas.
This series seeks to alleviate this situation by presenting widely applicable single reactions, or definite phases of a reaction, with this title addressing dioxirane oxidations of compounds other than alkenes and electrophilic fluorination with N-F reagents, including their respective mechanisms, scope and limitation, comparisons with other methods, experimental conditions, and experimental procedures.
 
 
 
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