Boron Trifluoride, BF3 Specialty Gas

Boron Trifluoride is a colorless gas with a pungent odor, soluble in organic solvents 

BF3 Gas is a colorless gas with an acidic, pungent, persistent odor that hydrolyzes in humid air to form thick white smoke. Inhalation of gas can irritate the respiratory system and cause burns if high concentrations of gas come into contact with the skin. Boron trifluoride dissolves rapidly in water and any organic compound containing nitrogen or oxygen. A vacuum break or trap on the feed line is recommended because the reaction to the above is so rapid that suck back is dangerous.

Boron trifluoride is corrosive.

Suitable metals for equipment handling boron trifluoride include stainless steel, Monel and Hastelloy. When wet, it will corrode steel, including stainless steel. It reacts with polyamide. BF3 is most importantly used as a reagent in organic synthesis, usually as a Lewis acid.

Specific applications of BF3 Gas:

1. Used as a catalyst for isomerization, alkylation, polymerization, esterification, condensation, cyclization, hydration, dehydration, sulfonation, desulfurization, nitration, halogenation, oxidation, acylation

2. Preparation of boranes (such as diborane)

3. Protection of molten magnesium and its alloys from oxidation during casting

4. As a flux for soldering magnesium

5. Fumigation

Used as an organic reaction catalyst

As an oxidant when casting magnesium and alloys

Main raw material for the preparation of boron halide, boron element, borane, sodium borohydride, etc.

Ion injection and doping for semiconductor devices and integrated circuit production.

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