title: Caged Fluoride: Photochemistry and Applications of 4-Hydroxyphenacyl Fluoride.
abstract: The quantitative, efficient (Φ = 0.8) photorelease of the fluoride ion upon UV-irradiation in aqueous media is introduced. The 4-hydroxyphenacyl chromophore is simultaneously transformed into UV-transparent 4-hydroxyphenylacetate via a photo-Favorskii rearrangement. The application of this process is demonstrated by photoinduced etching of mica and silicon by AFM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University , Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Tomáš
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Slanina
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University , Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Šebej
authors.affiliation: Institute for Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Goethe-University Frankfurt , Max-von-Laue-Str. 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heckel
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas , 1251 Wescoe Hall Drive, 5010 Malott Hall, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States.
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Givens
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University , Kamenice 5, 625 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Klán