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Improving the technical performance of related industrial products is an efficient strategy to reducing the application quantities and environmental burden for toxic chemicals. A novel polyfluoroalkyl surfactant potassium 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4-octafluoro-4-(perfluorobutoxy)butane-1-sulfonate(F404) was synthesized by a commercializable route. It had a surface tension(γ) of 18.2 mN/m at the critical micelle concentration(CMC, 1.04 g/L), significantly lower than that of perfluorooctane sulfonate(PFOS, ca. 33.0 mN/m, 0.72 g/L), and exhibited remarkable suppression of chromium-fog at a dose half that of PFOS. The half maximal inhibitory concentration(IC50) values in HepG2 cells and the lethal concentration of 50%(LC50) in zebrafish embryos after 72 hpf indicated a lower toxicity for F404 in comparison to PFOS. In a UV/sulphite system, 89.3% of F404 were decomposed after 3 h, representing a defluorination efficiency of 43%. The cleavage of the ether C—O bond during the decomposition would be expected to form a short chain·C4F9 as the position of the ether C—O in the F404 fluorocarbon chains is C4—O5. The ether unit is introduced in the perfluoroalkyl chain to improve water solubility, biocompatibility and degradation, thereby minimizing the environmental burden.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21707049, 21507044, 21806058, 21906069, 21477049) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2019M660185).
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Mr. LI Shutao, a great mentor and colleague, who passed suddenly away from complications caused by COVID-19 in February 2020.
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Zhou, Z., Guo, R., Chen, B. et al. Development of a Completely New PFOS Alternative with Lower Surface Tension for Minimizing the Environmental Burden. Chem. Res. Chin. Univ. 39, 408–414 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40242-023-3030-4
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