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Could be interesting to have a single F inside a buckyball. I know they have encased a single atom of K - don't ask me it's properties...

http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

Rocket fuel has ALWAYS attracted those with nerves of steel or no common sense but the PDF of the above book is one I love. My favourite? An accident involving CF3 - you read it right; chlorine trifluoride.

I also love that German chemist who makes 'energetic materials. Thomas M. Klapötke - http://www.chemie.uni-muenchen.de/ac/klapoetke/content/klapoetke/research/energetic_materials.html How about this:

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Try again!

Importantly, it's metabolised by the kidneys & not the liver.

FYI it has an AMAZING therapeutic index (~25,000 in animal studies), the highest of any commercial opioid. Still, operating suite only and the guy (or gal) at the head of the table with a steady hand & good reactions.

Hi,

I've been performing a series of reductive aminations using refluxing toluene & toluenesulfonic acid and a Dean-Stark apparatus then reducing with NaBH4. So far it's worked with every example BUT this one has gone awry 3 times:

I'm guessing that the pi-bonds of the benzene and the enamine are reducing the stability of the -F (it only loses an o-F).

Would the use of a dehydrating agent like TICl4 prevent this? I only ask because I have to have the series ready so I'm going on with others while I ponder (and shout a plaintive help).

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks.