Yeah the chemistry is simply there to provide a set of simple rules on which the puzzles can operate — it bears no relation to real synthetic chemistry (if only carbon flourine bonds could just be ripped apart at will!). (rockpapershotgun.com)
They did this using a device of patent law known as a Markrush group, which is defined by employing a phrase such as `... a halogen (flourine, chlorine, bromine, iodine or statine) derivative was used to prepare the drug...». (newscientist.com)
Pure quartic phonon modes in scandium flouride stiffen at elevated temperature and large side motions of the flourine atoms pulls their neighbouring scandium atoms together. (chenwli.com)