Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Take a look at the first pictures of perfluorocubane! In this video I discuss the recent synthesis of perfluorocubane.

I want to give a huge thank you to Midori Akiyama and Masafumi Sugiyama for allowing me to share their beautiful photos of perfluorocubane and its precursors. For inquiries regarding these images, please contact akiyama@moleng.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Links to articles discussed in this episode:

Perfluorocubane - doi.org/10.1126/science.abq0516
PERFECT fluorination - doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluchem.2014.09.020
Matrix radical cations - doi.org/10.1021/j100461a005

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