The book which ought to be once yours
Is kind of preparative course
Which lists the names and properties
Of fluoro compounds/all at ease.
First how to compounds sythetisize
Regardless of their shapes and size
You'll learn from many
Which show you all, and piece by piece.
Once compounds contain fluorine,
Some of them nice, some others mean,
Some react fast, some not at all,
But always strange, you would it call.
If you will find within your files
Some powerful nucleophiles,
Fluorinated oleofins,
Will react quick, and by all means.
Perfluoroaromatic rings
With oxygen and other things
Synthesized from C6F6
Are just a few of many tricks.
Fluoro Grignards, as a rule,
Another nice and useful tool,
Will fix to rings, if nothing fails,
Fluorinated carbon tails.
How do we look for fluorine
In compounds, It has always been
A chemist's nightmare. But here are
Chemical shifts of NMR.
Analyst's heart will jump with joy
When looking at this modern toy:
NMR couplings listed here
Let no fluorine disappear.
How Teflon, Freons, Halothane
Are useful, soon it will be plain.
But only those will understand
Who read this book till bitter end.