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Electrooxidation of perfluorocarboxylic acids in the presence of Cl2 yields perfluoroalkylchlorides RFCl. It is suggested that anodic oxidation of perfluorocarboxylate ions is the determining electrochemical stage in this electrochemical version of the Borodin-Hundsdikker reaction.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1841–1844, August, 1990.
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Grinberg, V.A., Cherstkov, V.F., Sterlin, S.R. et al. Electrochemical synthesis of perfluoroalkylchlorides. Russ Chem Bull 39, 1670–1673 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00961499
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