Highly fluorinated oils and surfactants and methods of making and using same
AssigneeUniversity of Utah Research Foundation
InventorsYihua Yu, Zhong-Xing Jiang
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Abstract
Disclosed are compounds comprising the structure: In one aspect, the compounds exhibit maximum symmetric branching. Also disclosed are bilayers, micelles, coatings, and nanoparticles comprising the disclosed compounds. Also disclosed are processes for the preparation of the disclosed compounds and methods of using the disclosed compounds. Also disclosed are highly fluorinated dendrons and methods for making same. Also disclosed are methods for Fluorous Mixture Synthesis and tagging. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
Claims12
A compound comprising the structure:
- wherein R11, R12, R13, R21, R22, R23, R31, R32, and R33 are CF3;
- and
- wherein R4 is H, OH, OBn, OC(CF3)3, alkyl, or alkoxy.
A process for the preparation of a compound comprising the structure:
- wherein R is CF3 and wherein R4 is H, OH, OBn, alkyl, or alkoxy;
- the process comprising the steps of:
- providing a triol,
- reacting the triol with or nonafluoro-tert-butanol to provide a triperfluoro-tert-butyl ether.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.