New technique finds a use for ozone-destroying chemical
waste product
A team of chemists at USC has developed a way to transform a
hitherto useless ozone-destroying greenhouse gas that is the byproduct of
Teflon manufacture and transform it into reagents for producing
pharmaceuticals.
The team will publish their discovery in a paper entitled
"Taming of Fluoroform (CF3H): Direct Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylation of
Si, B, S and C Centers," in the Dec. 7 issue of Science.
The method is also being patented.