Electrochemical fluorination: state of the art and future tendences

A brief survey of the ECF process for the preparation of perfluorinated organo-compounds is given. The yield of perfluorinated products depends on the experimental conditions and on the nature of the starting material. Some useful rules are reported in order to optimise the ECF process. An improved operational technique allowed to obtain high yield of perfluorodimorpholinepropane (PFDMP) by simultaneous fluorination of dimorpholinepropane and N-methylmorpholine.