The new chemical is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenX and while I'm not a chemist as best I can tell, it also contains a car

The new chemical is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GenX and while I'm not a chemist as best I can tell, it also contains a carboxylic acid group, so this method would work on it.