Perfluorobutyl iodide (PFBI) is a promising alternative to chlorofluorocarbon solvents used in aircraft ground maintenance operations and other military and commercial operations because it cleans well, has zero ozone depletion potential, and has extremely low global warming properties. Perfluorobutyl iodides also could used as gain media for a solar-pumped laser amplifier. This compound is usually utilized as perfluoroalkyl radical precursors[1–3].
clear colourless liquid with pungent odour
Perfluorobutyl Iodide is used as an organocatalyst in some polymerization reactions.
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[3] Zhang, Juan et al. "Perfluorobutyl iodide-assisted direct cyanomethylation of azoles and phenols with acetonitrile?." RSC Advances 26 (2015): 20562–20565.
