Sodium aluminum fluoride is called cyrolite by potters and is in a finely powdered (mostly respirable size) form in most glaze mixing rooms, sometimes in over 50 pound quantities or in open bins. It is also an EPA-registered agricultural pesticide, so I'm often surprised at how casually it is used by potters. There are other fluoride-containing powdered materials, but this is the one I worry about most.
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Hi Tilak and all,
So I was thinking about it more from the standpoint of nucleophilic reagents generating fluoride anion and being in the lipophilic environment of the reaction
or from having other organic materials present (including the cationic portion of the reagent itself). I would think that those conditions would lead to the same deep tissue exposure potential of fluoride that makes HF so insidious. Certainly under appropriate
conditions these could generate HF, so there is that issue as well. Electrophilic fluorination reagents would not pose the same threat because they would not generate fluoride anion. The document from the Baran group below shows many different types of fluorination
reagents, and is not specific to nucleophilic reagents.
Common examples of nucleophilic fluorination reagents include pyridine hydrofluoride, DAST, and even sodium or potassium fluoride in the presence of crown ethers
to increase solubility and fluoride availability.
Just curious if anyone has developed programs for these, or knew of any exposures.
Thanks,
Kristi
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Hi Kristi:
There is a low probability of generating HF as a side product during nucleophilic fluorination. By the way which
method researcher is using for forming the C-F bond? There are various methods available in the literature for such fluorination.
Good luck.
Tilak
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] safety of nucleophilic fluorination reagents
Is anyone else treating nucleophilic fluorination reagents in the same way as HF in terms of precautions and emergency response? I'm not finding any data on the subject aside from recommendations to have calcium gluconate on hand in SDSs.
Thanks,
Kristi
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