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1. Perfluoroalkanes and haloperfluoroalkanes of general formula:n wherein:n i a and c, equal to or different from each other, are integers ranging from 0 to 4 and preferably from 0 to 2, and their sum is not lower than 1 and not greater than 6, preferably not greater than 3; b is an integer ranging from 1 to 5, preferably from 1 to 3; nthe sum a + b + c is not greater than 8, and preferably not greater than 5;n X and Y, equal to or different from each other, can be iodine, bromine, chlorine or fluorin; nwith the limitations:n that X and Y can be contemporaneously fluorine only in case in which at least one of the two indexes a and c is equal to or greater than 2; that X is not fluorine when a = 1 and c = 0; that Y is not fluorine when c = 1 and a = 0; that Y cannot be I when X = F and c = 0; that X cannot be I when Y = F and a = 0; nthe -C 2 F 4 -units can be present in the molecular structure also alternated to the -CF 2 -CF(CF 3 )-units; are prepared by telomerizing with C 3 F 6 or with a mixture of C 3 F 6 + C 2 F 4 a precursor constituted by one or more -CF2CF 2 -units, and having at one end a iodine atom, and at the other end a halogen atom selected from iodine, chlorine, bromine, fluorine, and in the possible subsequent halogenating reaction with fluorine, chlorine, bromine for the substitution of iodine atoms. |