CFT 732

Historical review of fluorine chemistry. Health and safety aspects of fluorochemicals: the interaction of hydrogen fluoride, fluorine, and fluorides with biological tissue, safe practice, emergencies, exposure limits. Production of hydrogen fluoride. Electrolytic production of fluorine gas: basics of fluorine cell technology, contaminants, purification. Inorganic fluorides: their synthesis, properties, reactivities, and industrial uses. Comparison of inorganic fluorides with other halides. Noble gas fluorides. The nuclear fuel cycle. Use of hydrofluoric acid in hydro-metallurgy. Introduction to organic fluorine chemistry: properties of fluoro-organics, preparation, analysis, fluorous phase. Direct fluorination. Electrochemical fluorination. Hightemperature synthesis techniques. Organic fluorides as etchants in plasma and semiconductor technologies. Excimer lasers. Fluoro-polymers: their properties, applications, markets, preparation of important industrial fluoro-monomers, characterization techniques, poly-merization and manipulation of physical properties, processing, thermal behaviour. Refrigerants. Fluorine-containing pharmaceuticals. Proton emission tomography. Fluoride glasses.

The role of fluorine chemistry in Liion batteries:

• Electrolytes
• Solvents
• Intercalated graphite
• CFx materials.