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What’s the most polar nonionic compound? In March 2015 at the ACS national meeting in Denver, D. O’Hagan and co-workers at the University of St. Andrews (UK) describedÌý. In 12 steps, they synthesized all-cis-hexafluorocyclohexane (HFC) from inositol, a remarkable feat because of the specific required stereochemistry and the repulsive forces among the six fluorine atoms on the same side of the ring.

Because the molecule is electropositive on one side of the ring and strongly electronegative on the other, it has the large dipole moment of 6.2 D (debyes). (A compound’s polarity is measured by its dipole moment.) The O’Hagan team could not find a report of a more polar nonionic compound in the literature.

Soon after O’Hagan’s report, J. Meany of Tuscaloosa, AL, said, “Not so fast.â€� He pointed out that nonionic donor–acceptor pairs of organic molecules have much higher (15â€�20 D) dipole moments. He suggests that all-cis-HFC be called theÌý.

The following month, A. F. Pozharskii of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, chimed in. In 1991, he and his co-workers reported the synthesis of 4,5-bis(dimethylamino)-1,8-naphthalenedicarboxaldehyde*Ìýwith a dipole moment of 9.2 D. He echoes Meany by stating thatÌý

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*ÌýZh. Org. Khim.Ìý[Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry]Ìý1991,Ìý27, 1536.

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