Front Cover: α‐Fluoroalcohols: Synthesis and Characterization of Perfluorinated Methanol, Ethanol and n‐Propanol, and their Oxonium Salts (Chem. Eur. J. 63/2018)

Perfluoroalcohols: Although thermally unstable, these alcohols can be readily accessed through equilibria of the corresponding acyl fluorides with HF in anhydrous HF solution. These equilibria can be shifted to the side of the alcohols by trapping them as oxonium salts, ethers or alkoxides, thus making these reactions synthetically useful. More information can be found in the Communication by K. O. Christe et al. on page 16742.