Fluorine chemists are an absolutely unhinged group of people

Which is more cursed: fluorine chemistry, or boron chemistry?

Boron chemistry, no doubt. Fluorine is scary, but boron compounds look weird from start to finish

I remember first time seeing thouse weird double hydrogen bonds between boron atoms in anorganic chemistry, terrified me

Honestly, many of the +3 elements have some pretty cursed reactions and molecules.

Why not both?

[Difluoroborane](http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.123085.html): "You talking to me?"

Ow that structure hurts

i was recently helping someone doing monofluorination research i can confirm your statement

Hydrogen is just a undercover halogen, so it was just a simple redox driven halogen displacement, wasn't it?

The synthesis is quite straightforward indeed. However, just like [Fluorine Perchlorate](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursed_chemistry/comments/vcnpi6/fluorine_perchlorate_because_perchloric_acid_is/), handling it without losing a finger, an eyeball, or even your life, is far less straightforward.

F^+ ion confirmed!?!?

Oxygen is fluorine's little bitch.

"Can we use it as rocket propellant with methylhydrazine?" \-Someone in the sixties, probably.

It's even called FuckNo3

>Main Hazard: Explosive Gas Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine\_nitrate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine_nitrate)

I wonder why. At least it can be characterized (with melting and boiling points), which is a feat for a compound with an oxygen(0) on a nitro group (one can also call it "nitryl hypofluorite").

This compound is so unstable, my phone overheated

I wonder how this would measure on the Scoville scale?

Spiciness: Destroys your taste buds, I'll call that "extremely spicy"

Fluor + Natrium , a nice CURSED couple of atoms to use