Corrosion of equipment and its protection at producing and technical application of organofluorine products

Extension of the nomenclature of fluorine-containing products, and modernization of the methods for their synthesis (liquid-phase and gas-phase fluorination of the feedstock with hydrogen fluoride, electrochemical fluorination in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride, direct fluorination with gaseous fluorine and with the use of metals carrying fluorine, etc.) require extension of research on the corrosion safety of equipment at the implementation of new technologies. Therefore, the Laboratory of Corrosion is systematically involved in the work on improving the technology of producing basic fluorinating agents, elemental fluorine and hydrogen fluoride, that are highly aggressive towards structural materials.     

Direct fluorination of aryl oxygen compounds

A study has been made of the reaction of aryl oxygen compounds with elemental fluorine in hydrogen fluoride and acetonitrile. Hydrogen fluoride acted as a good solvent in the reaction of salicylic acid, salicylaldehyde and phenyl salicylate. Salicylalcohol gave a mixture of fluorination and oxidation products. Diphenyl derivatives were also fluorinated and gave mainly monofluoro compounds.     

Structural and dynamical properties of hydrogen fluoride in aqueous solution: an ab initio quantum mechanical charge field molecular dynamics simulation

The novel ab initio quantum mechanical charge field (QMCF) molecular dynamics simulation at the Hartree-Fock level has been employed to investigate hydration structure and dynamics of hydrogen fluoride in aqueous solution. The average H-F bond length of 0.93 A obtained from the QMCF MD simulation is in good agreement with the experimental data. The HHF...Ow distance of 1.62 A was evaluated for the first hydration shell, and 2.00 A was observed for the FHF...Hw distance. The stability of hydrogen bonding is more pronounced in the hydrogen site of hydrogen fluoride, with a single water molecule in this part of the first hydration shell. A wide range of coordination numbers between 3 and 9 with an average value of 5.6 was obtained for the fluorine site. The force constants of 819.1 and 5.9 N/m were obtained for the HHF-FHF and HHF...Ow interactions, respectively, proving the stability of the nondissociated form of hydrogen fluoride in aqueous solution. The mean residence times of 2.1 and 2.5 ps were determined for ligand exchange processes in the neighborhood of fluorine and hydrogen atoms of hydrogen fluoride, respectively, indicating a weak structure-making effect of hydrogen fluoride in water. The corresponding H-bond lifetimes attribute this effect to the H atom site of HF.     

New Insight on Carbon Dioxide-Mediated Hydrogen Production**

A new approach to hydrogen production from water is described. This simple method is based on carbon dioxide-mediated water decomposition under UV radiation. The water contained dissolved sodium hydroxide, and the solution was saturated with gaseous carbon dioxide. During saturation, the pH decreased from about 11.5 to 7–8. The formed bicarbonate and carbonate ions acted as scavengers for hydroxyl radicals, preventing the recombination of hydroxyl and hydrogen radicals and prioritizing hydrogen gas formation. In the presented method, not yet reported in the literature, hydrogen production is combined with carbon dioxide. For the best system with alkaline water (0.2 m NaOH) saturated with CO₂ under UV-C, the hydrogen production amounted to 0.6 μmol h⁻¹ during 24 h of radiation.     

二氧化钛光催化氧化-离子色谱法测定液晶材料中的氟含量

建立了TiO2光催化氧化-离子色谱法测定液晶材料中氟含量的方法。利用TiO2光催化氧化技术作为预处理手段对含氟液晶化合物进行有机破坏,使碳氟键断裂,生成的F-用离子色谱法测定。结果表明,TiO2催化剂用量为0.1g/L时,可达到最佳的光催化降解效果,最佳降解时间为50min。F-峰面积与其含量在0.005～1mg/g范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限为2.1μg/g。测得3种液晶材料的氟含量分别为7.6,18.1及28.4mg/g,不同浓度的加标回收率为86.0%～118.0%,相对标准偏差RSD(n=5)在3.2%～5.7%之间。本方法不仅适用于有机氟体系,同时也为需经有机破坏后进行测定的有机化合物体系提供了新方法。     

Selective gas-chromatographic detection using an ion-selective electrode-II Selective detection of fluorine compounds

Components in samples are separated on a gas chromatography column using hydrogen as carrier gas. The individual components from the column are passed through a platinum tube heated at 1000 degrees , where they undergo hydrogenolysis, and fluorine compounds are converted into hydrogen fluoride. The hydrogen fluoride is dissolved in a slow stream of an absorption solution, and the fluoride ion concentration in the resulting solution is monitored in a flow-cell with a fluoride ion electrode. The potentiometric output of the cell is converted into a signal, which is proportional to the concentration of fluoride ion, by an antilogarithmic converter, and recorded. The response of the detector to fluorine compounds was about 10,000 times that to an equal quantity of other organic compounds, and 5 x 10(-11) mole of fluorobenzene could be detected.     

Hydrogen fluoride analyzer for gases and aerosols

Many fire suppression agents are currently used, and the replacement candidates for these agents contain fluorine atoms. When these agents are used to extinguish a fire, large quantities of hydrogen fluoride gas can be produced from the thermal degradation of fluorinated organic compounds. A real-time analyzer has been developed to measure exposure levels of hydrogen fluoride gas and aerosols during fire suppression tests. A vacuum pump pulls air through a continuous denuder, where the toxic gas and aerosols are extracted from the air into an aqueous trapping solution. The trapping solution then passes through a flow cell, where a fluoride ion-selective electrode measures the fluoride ion concentration. A solenoid pump moves the trapping solution and calibration standards through the analyzer. Once calibrated, the analyzer can generate a concentration profile of hydrogen fluoride versus time. This hydrogen fluoride analyzer is portable and can be calibrated in about 5 min. It provides rapid response to hydrogen fluoride gas and aerosols, over a detection range from 1 to 5000 mg/m³.     

Power-efficient Mode of the Electrolytic Fluorine Production Process Control

Generalized functionality of the fluorine production manufacturing efficiency developed for determination of optimum values of temperature and hydrogen fluoride concentration according to the method of multiparametric optimization allowed calculating the optimum process performance and develop the optimum fluorine production process control by maintaining electrolytic solution temperature and hydrogen fluoride concentration in the electrolyte depending on the value of the current load in the electrolyzer.     

Fluorination of treated carbon

Graphite fluoride is classified into (C₂F)n and (CF)n types from the structure and composition. Both compounds have such unique physicochemical properties as low surface energy, solid lubricating characteristics, and oxidizing ability. However, a long reaction time is required to completely fluorinate graphite and moreover, the decomposition reaction of the product causes the lowering of the yields.In this paper, the effect of the pretreatments of the starting material on the fluorination will be reported on the following methods.1) Fluorination of Exfoliated Graphite Obtained by Heat-treatment of Graphite Lamellar Compound.The exfoliated graphite was obtained by the immersion of graphite into the mixed solution of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide and subsequent heat-treatment. It has both much large surface area and larger lattice strain than that of the original graphite.The exfoliated graphite was much faster fluorinated than the original graphite. The dissociation of fluorine molecules to atoms was found to be a rate-determining step in the formation of graphite fluoride from the exfoliated graphite, whereas the process of diffusion of fluorine molecules was the rate-determining step in the fluorination of the original graphite.2) Fluorination of Residual Carbon Formed upon Pyrolysis of Graphite Fluoride.Graphite fluoride decomposes to carbon and some perfluorocarbons of low molecular weight at high temperature above 600 °C. The residual carbon was amorphous in analogy with petroleum coke or carbon black, but had smaller interlayer spacing and larger specific surface area due to its microporous structure than these amorphous carbonsThe rate of the direct fluorination of residual carbon at a room temperature was comparable to that of active carbon, and the graphite fluoride obtained from the residual carbon has a similar high thermostability to that of graphite fluoride obtained from graphite at a high temperature under an atmosphere of fluorine gas. Upon direct fluorination of the residual carbon a more crystalline graphite fluoride was obtained even at a low temperature than the case of petroleum coke and carbon black. It is interesting that the fluorination of the residual carbon leads to the formation of crystalline graphite fluoride in high yield.     

Development of direct fluorination technology for application to materials for lithium battery

Direct fluorination of 1,3-dioxolan-2-one with elemental fluorine was successfully carried out to provide 4-fluoro-1,3-dioxolan-2-one, which was expected as an additive for lithium ion secondary battery. 4-Fluoro-1,3-dioxolan-2-one was also further fluorinated with elemental fluorine to give three isomers of difluoro derivatives by the same methodology. Another topic is the preparation of trifluoromethanesulfonyl fluoride, an intermediate of lithium battery electrolyte, by the reaction of methanesulfonyl fluoride with elemental fluorine. The use of perfluoro-2-methylpentane as a solvent gave satisfactory selectivity of trifluoromethanesulfonyl fluoride.     

Prospects for Using Photocatalytic Air Cleaning Technology to Provide Safety of Sevoflurane Application to Parturition Anesthesia in Obstetric Hospitals

The product composition of photocatalytic oxidation of vaporized sevoflurane, a next-generation fluorinated inhalation anesthetic, has been studied. It has been found that the final products of oxidation are carbon dioxide and hydrogen fluoride. The possibility of complete chemical absorption of the evolved hydrogen fluoride by a lime absorber during the course of the photocatalytic reaction has been shown. A safe scheme for using photocatalysis is recommended for purifying air to remove vapors of halogen-containing anesthetics under medical hospital conditions.     

Perfluoroethanesulfonyl fluoride: Preparation from sultone

A procedure was developed for preparing perfluoroethanesulfonyl fluoride by synthesis of hexafluoropropane-2-β-sultone from sulfuric anhydride and perfluoropropene, followed by hydrolysis of the sultone to α-tetrafluoroethanesulfonyl fluoride and fluorination of the latter with elemental fluorine.     

Oxygen determination in organic fluorine compounds by means of a glassy-carbon pyrolysis tube

A conventional apparatus for determination of oxygen in organic compounds has been improved for application to organic fluorine compounds. A feature of the apparatus is the use of a pyrolysis tube made of glassy carbon instead of quartz, which eliminates effects due to hydrogen fluoride produced in pyrolysis of the sample. Ten analyses of dexamethasone with the apparatus gave a mean value of 20.44% for oxygen (theory, 20.38%), with a standard deviation of 0.16%. Oxygen in 9 organic fluorine compounds was accurately determined by using the apparatus, with an average error of +0.1%. One analysis by a gravimetric or a coulometric method took about 40 or 25 min, respectively.     

Manometric submicro determination of carbon and hydrogen in organic materials

A method is described for the determination of carbon and hydrogen in quantities of organic material ranging from 5 to 50 μg. The method involves catalytic combustion of the sample in oxygen and measurement of the pressures of the resulting carbon dioxide and water. Special attention has been paid to the reduction of the effect of water adsorption in the apparatus. The present submicro method can be applied to non-volatile, non-hygroscopic samples and is free from interferences by nitrogen, sulphur and halogens (except fluorine). The standard deviation in the 50-μg sample range is 0.13% for carbon and 0.10% for hydrogen. The average duration per analysis when carried out in series is 20 min.     

Rotational spectroscopy and molecular structure of 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene and the 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene-hydrogen fluoride complex

Fourier transform microwave rotational spectra in the 6-22 GHz region are obtained for the complex formed between 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene and hydrogen fluoride, including the normal isotopomer, the two singly substituted 13C species, and the complex obtained with DF. A unique planar structure for the complex is determined from a combined analysis of the rotational constants derived from the spectra and atomic positions obtained using Kraitchman [Am. J. Phys. 21, 17 (1953)] substitution coordinates. Consistent with this structure, no hyperfine splitting of rotational lines due to the nuclear quadrupole coupling interaction is observed for the D-containing species. Although the primary interaction in the complex is a hydrogen-fluorine hydrogen bond, as is the case for all previously studied Lewis acid-fluoroethylene complexes, the CF2CHF-HF complex adopts a distinctly different geometry in which both the primary and secondary interactions occur between the HF molecule and a F atom and a H atom, respectively, bonded to the same carbon of CF2CHF. The 2.020(41) A hydrogen bond has hydrogen fluoride as the donor and 1,1,2-trifluoroethylene as the acceptor and forms a 109.0(13) degrees C-F...H angle. The secondary interaction between the hydrogen fluoride F atom and the H atom geminal to the acceptor F atom causes the hydrogen bond to deviate 41.6(51) degrees from linearity. Structural comparisons with analogous complexes formed with mono- and difluorinated ethylenes suggest that the primary hydrogen bond strength and the fluoroethylene fluorine atom basicity both decrease with increasing fluorine substitution. In the course of this work, it was necessary to obtain additional rotational spectra for the 1,1,2-trifluroethylene monomer and to improve the precision of the values of the structural parameters for this molecule.     

Synthesis of perfluorinated carboxylic acid membrane monomers by utilizing liquid-phase direct fluorination

A new synthetic procedure for the preparation of perfluorinated carboxylic acid membrane monomers from non-fluorinated compounds has been developed. A key step in the synthetic route is liquid-phase direct fluorination reaction with elemental fluorine. Direct fluorination of a partially fluorinated diester, which was prepared from a hydrocarbon diol and a perfluorinated acyl fluoride, followed by thermal elimination, gave a perfluorinated diacyl fluoride, which is a precursor of a perfluorinated carboxylic acid membrane monomer.     

A thermoanalyser for studies in an atmosphere of a gaseous fluorinating agent

A thermoanalyser for studies in an atmosphere of a strong fluorinating agent has been designed. A methodology for simultaneously obtaining DTA and TG/DTG curves of physicochemical processes over a wide range of temperatures in environments of gaseous fluorine, hydrogen fluoride and chlorine trifluoride, as well as under vacuum and hydrogen, has been developed. The construction of the thermoanalyser is described in detail. To illustrate the capabilities of the thermoanalyser a study of the thermal behaviour of M₂IrCl₆ complexes with gaseous fluorine is presented.     

Structural Distortion in Perovskite Type KCaH3–xFx (0.54 ≤ x ≤ 3)

Representatives of the solid solution series KCaH_3–xF_x were synthesized by solid state reactions from binary metal hydrides and fluorides. Crystal structures were analyzed by Rietveld refinement based on X-ray powder diffraction. The degree of substitution was determined by refinement of site occupancy factors as well as elemental analysis for hydrogen. Three sections of x in KCaH_3–xF_x can be distinguished. For x < 0.54 no hydride fluoride exists, i.e. there is no hydride of the composition KCaH₃ and the solid solution starts only at x = 0.54. The tetragonal SrTiO₃ type structure with partial ordering of hydrogen and fluorine atoms is found for 0.54 ≤ x ≤ 1.7. Both anion positions show mixed occupation with some preference of hydrogen atoms for 8h and fluorine atoms for 4a sites (I4/mcm, SrTiO₃ type). For fluorine-rich compounds a solid solution with orthorhombic GdFeO₃ type structure (Pnma) and a perfectly statistical distribution of hydrogen and fluorine atoms is found (1.8 ≤ x ≤ 3). Interatomic distances resulting from the structure refinements are in the range of typical K–H, K–F, Ca–H, and Ca–F distances for mainly ionic compounds.     

高比表面活性碳微球分离H2中少量CO2

以实验数据为依据, 结合双Langmuir模型研究了用高比表面活性碳微球材料分离H2中少量CO2的行为. 在实验中, 用高精度的IGA-003重力吸附仪测定了温度为298、273 和268 K, 压力在0-1.8 MPa范围内CO2、H2及n(CO2):n(H2)=1:9混合物在活性碳微球中的吸附等温线. 比较不同吸附模型的计算结果与实验数据, 结果表明, 双Langmuir模型与实验结果拟合得较好; 而且通过结合理想吸附溶液理论, 该模型可以准确地计算不同的混合物体系(包括H2-CO2体系)的吸附量和吸附选择性. 利用该模型求解了不同温度下各组分的分吸附量, 得到了CO2的吸附选择性;在268 K和1.7 MPa下, CO2的吸附选择性可达到73.4, 表明活性碳微球是一种优秀的吸附H2中少量CO2的材料.     

新磺酰脲类化合物的合成及除草活性

新磺酰脲类化合物的合成及除草活性;嘧啶;合成;除草剂