Mw. Briscoe et al., REACTIONS INVOLVING FLUORIDE-ION .38. NEW FLUORINATED DIENES BY DEFLUORINATION, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (21), 1994, pp. 3115-3118
The oligomers 2, 4 and 6. 6a, derived from tetrafluoroethene, octafluo
rocyclopentene, and hexafluorocyclobutene respectively, are converted
into their corresponding dienes 7-9 by defluorination, using sodium am
algam. An alternative route using tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethene (TDAE)
is also described and forms a fluoride salt of TDAE. The diene 7 show
s a remarkably low extinction coefficient for UV absorption.