... an environmentally friendly Halon replacement for use as a gaseous fire suppression agent. Novec 1230 is ... on a proprietary chemistry from 3M called C6-fluoroketone; it is also known as dodecafluoro-2-methylpentane ... Chemically, it is a fluorinated ketone with the systematic name 1,1,1,2,2,4,5,5, ... structural formula CF3CF2C(=O)CF(CF3)2, a fully fluorinated analog of ethyl isopropyl ketone. ...