540. Addition of free radicals to unsaturated systems. Part XIV. The direction of radical addition to trifluoroethylene

RN Haszeldine, BR Steele

Index: Haszeldine; Steele Journal of the Chemical Society, 1957 , p. 2800,2806

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Abstract

Radical attack on trifluoroethylene is 80% on the CHF group and 20% on the CF, group; attack by an atom is 60% on the CHF group and 40% on the CF, group. This is the first time that anything other than exclusive radical attack on one carbon of an unsymmetrical olefin