Fluorine gas is used in cleaning of steel, cracking of alkanes in the petrochemical industry, and etching of glass and making certain chemical compounds, such as uranium hexafluoride, which is used in separating isotopes of uranium for use in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons; it is also ...
for the production of agrochemical and pharmaceutical intermediates, and in the electronic industry for metal surface treatment. In areas with a fluorine deficiency, it is added to table salt as a food additive. KF is also used in the production of flux products and ...
K promotes the breaking of carbon-fluorine bonds in F-GO, forming a graphene layer. As the fluorine is completely extracted, the hybrid structure of graphene changes from the initialsp3hybrid structure tosp2, and the overall structure becomes more planar. The carbon-fluorine bond energy in F-GO...
The terms “halo” or “halogen,” by themselves or as part of another substituent, mean, unless otherwise stated, a fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine atom. Additionally, terms such as “haloalkyl,” are meant to include monohaloalkyl and polyhaloalkyl. For example, the term “halo(...
At room temperature and atmospheric pressure the halogen elements in their free states exist as diatomic molecules. In molecular fluorine (F2) the atoms are held together by a bond made from the union of a p orbital from each atom, with such a bond being classed as a sigma bond. It shoul...
Revised effective ionic radii and systematic studies of interatomic distances in halides and chalcogenides. Acta Cryst. 1976, A32, 155–169. [CrossRef] 30. Krackl, S.; Inoue, S.; Driess, M.; Enthaler, S. Intermolecular hydrogen–fluorine interaction in dimolybdenum triply bonded complexes ...
Keywords: alkoxide ligands; potassium complexes; secondary interactions; potassium–fluorine contacts; potassium–Cπ interactions; π ligands 1. Introduction Complexes of the electropositive alkali and alkalino-earth metals are characterized by ionic bonding between the cation and the ligands and co-...