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IN two recent communications1,2, a general method for the preparation of perfluoro-aromatic compounds was described. It involved the defluorination of saturated2 and unsaturated1 cyclic fluorocarbons over a metal surface at 400–600°, when the corresponding aromatic fluorocarbons were produced. For example, hexafluorobenzene was obtained1 from octafluorocyclohexa-1 : 3- or -1 : 4-diene, and octafluoronaphthalene2 from perfluorodecalin ; several other examples were also described2.
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BURDON, J., GILMAN, D., PATRICK, C. et al. Pentafluoropyridine. Nature 186, 231–232 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186231a0
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