Perfluoroaromatic derivatives of metals and metalloids

Direct synthetic methods in organometallic chemistry have many inherent advantages, such as simplicity, ready availability of materials, potentially greater yield, and from the aesthetic point of view, there is satisfaction gained from the ability to convert a clean, pure metal directly to a much-desired compound. Direct methods have been found to be amenable in the syntheses of fluoroaromatic metal and metalloidal derivatives by reaction of iodopentafluorobenzene with the pertinent element in vacuo at high temperature, and these techniques have been extended in this work by using a number of perfluorohalobenzenes. [Continues.]