Patent ID: 7060850

Claim:
A compound for increasing the fluorous nature of an organic compound, said compound having the formula: X—CR 1 R 2 —C 6 H 5-m —[W p (CH 2 ) n R f ] m wherein R f is a fluorous group, X is selected from the group consisting of a leaving group, a nucleophilic group and an electrophilic group, R 1 and R 2 are independently, the same or different, one of a hydrogen, a linear alkyl, a branched alkyl, a phenyl, an aryl, C 6 H 5-q (W′) q , C 6 H 5-m′ [W p′ (CH 2 ) n′ R f ] m′ and C 6 H 5-m″ [W p″ (CH 2 ) n″ R f ] m″ , m, m′ and m″ are each integers from 1 to 5, n, n′ and n″ are each integers from 0 to 5, p, p′ and p″ each have a value of 0 or 1, q is an integer from 0 to 5, W is a grouping of atoms selected from the group consisting of O, S, NR 3 , CR 4 R 5 , and SiR 6 R 7 , wherein when W is SiR 6 R 7 and R 1 and R 2 are each hydrogen, X is not one of Br, N-imidazolyl —OC(O)—CI and —OH, and W′ is a grouping of atoms selected from the group consisting of OR 8 , SR 9 , NR 10 R 11 , CR 12 R 13 R 14 , and SiR 15 R 16 R 17 , wherein R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 12 , R 13 , and R 14 are independently, the same or different, one of hydrogen, linear alkyl, branched alkyl, aryl, benzyl and —(CH 2 ) n′″ R f and R 6 , R 7 , R 15 , R 16 , and R 17 are independently, the same or different, one of linear alkyl, branched alkyl, aryl, benzyl and —(CH 2 ) n′″ R f , wherein n′″ is an integer from 0 to 5, wherein when X is —OH, R 1 is one of hydrogen, a phenyl, C 6 H 5-q (W′) q , C 6 H 5-m′ [W p′ (CH 2 ) n′ R f ] m′ and C 6 H 5-m″ [W p″ (CH 2 ) n″ R f ] m″ and R 2 is one of a phenyl, C 6 H 5-q (W′) q , C 6 H 5-m′ [W p′ (CH 2 ) n′ R f ] m′ and C 6 H 5-m″ [W p″ (CH 2 ) n″ R f ] m″ and wherein when X is an electrophilic group, X is —NCZ, wherein Z is one of oxygen and sulfur.