Swarts fluorination

Swarts fluorination is a process whereby the chlorine atoms in a compound - generally an organic compound, but experiments have been performed using silanes - are replaced with fluorine, by treatment with antimony trifluoride in the presence of chlorine or of antimony pentachloride. The active species is antimony trifluorodichloride, which is produced in situ; this compound can also be produced in bulk, according to a patent of John Weaver[1]

The process was initially described by Frédéric Jean Edmond Swarts in 1892:[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/4438088.html
  2. ↑ Acad. Roy. Belg 3(24) p.474 (1892)


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