Fluorocarbons, organic molecules with carbon skeletons and fluorine "skins", differ fundamentally from their hydrocarbon counterparts in interesting and useful ways. A selection of the myriad applications fluorocarbons and their derivatives have found in modern life is described and related to molecular properties. Salient aspects of the nature and reactivity of fluorocarbon compounds are highlighted by comparison with their more familiar hydrocarbon analogues.

Perspective on Fluorocarbon Chemistry

Quantum dynamics in low-temperature chemistry

Ab initio calculations at different levels of theory have been performed for the title H-abstraction reactions. Total energies at stationary points of the potential energy surfaces for the reaction systems were obtained at MP2 and MP4 levels and improved by using Gaussian-2 (G2) methodology. The calculated G2 heats of reaction agree well with the experimental ones for both methoxy (product resulting from hydroxyl-side attack) and hydroxymethyl (product resulting from methyl-side attack) reaction channels. Calculations of the potential energy surfaces for the reaction systems show that H-abstraction from methanol by H, CH3, and OH (for methoxy reaction channel) proceeds by simple metathesis. The mechanism of the hydroxymethyl channel of reaction CH3OH + OH appears to be more complex, and it may consist of two consecutive processes. The reaction rate is determined by the energy barrier of the first process. Differences in the heights of the calculated energy barriers explain the differences in the reactivit...

Theoretical study of the kinetics of the hydrogen abstraction from methanol. 3. Reaction of methanol with hydrogen atom, methyl, and hydroxyl radicals

Single-Electron Transfer Living Radical Polymerization Platform to Practice, Develop, and Invent.

Theory of tunnel transitions of atoms in solids

Hydrogen atom abstraction by methyl radicals in methanol glasses at 15–100 K: evidence for a limiting rate constant below 40 K by quantum-mechanical tunneling

Masaru Shiotani

Papers

Hydrogen atom abstraction by methyl radicals in methanol glasses at 15–100 K: evidence for a limiting rate constant below 40 K by quantum-mechanical tunneling

The isotropic and anisotropic EPR spectra of the tetrafluoroethylene radical anion

Novel cycloaddition of tetrafluoroethylene to the tetrafluoroethylene radical anion at 95 K: direct observation by EPR studies