Pentafluoro ethyl radical

• Formula: C₂F₅
• Molecular weight: 119.0134
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2F5/c3-1(4)2(5,6)7 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: IBPHXKCFBXEFQP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 3369-48-0
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

View reactions leading to C₂F₅⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

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Data compiled by: Marilyn E. Jacox

State:   X

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 371; Compton and Rayner, 1982

Notes

References

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Sullivan and Beauchamp, 1976
Sullivan, S.A.; Beauchamp, J.L., Competition between proton transfer and elimination in the reactions of strong bases with fluoroethanes in the gas phase. Influence of base strength on reactivity, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1976, 98, 1160. [all data]

Spyrou, Sauers, et al., 1983
Spyrou, S.M.; Sauers, I.; Christophorou, L.G., Electron attachment to the perfluoroalkanes n-CnF₂n⁺₂ (n = 1-6) and i-C₄F₁₀, J. Chem. Phys., 1983, 78, 7200. [all data]

Harland and Thynne, 1973
Harland, P.W.; Thynne, J.C.J., Negative ion formation by perfluoro-n-butane as the result of low energy electron impact, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1973, 11, 445. [all data]

Harland and Thynne, 1972
Harland, P.W.; Thynne, J.C.J., Dissociative electron capture in perfluoropropylene and perfluoropropane, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1972, 9, 253. [all data]

Lifshitz and Grajower, 1969
Lifshitz, C.; Grajower, R., Dissociative electron capture and dissociative ionization in perfluoropropane, Intern. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1969, 3, 211. [all data]

MacNeil and Thynne, 1969
MacNeil, K.A.G.; Thynne, J.C.J., Ionization and Dissociation of Hexafluoroethane, and of 1,1,1-Trifluoroethane and Fluoroform, by Electron Impact, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1969, 2, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7381(69)80001-X . [all data]

Bibby and Carter, 1963
Bibby, M.M.; Carter, G., Ionization and dissociation in some fluorocarbon gases, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1963, 59, 2455. [all data]

Page and Goode, 1969
Page, F.M.; Goode, G.C., Negative Ions and the Magnetron., Wiley, NY, 1969. [all data]

Fisher, Homer, et al., 1965
Fisher, I.P.; Homer, J.B.; Lossing, F.P., Free radicals by mass spectrometry. XXXIII. Ionization potentials of CF₂, CF₃CF₂, CF₃CH₂, n-C₃F₇, and i-C₃F₇ radicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1965, 87, 957. [all data]

Butler and Snelson, 1980
Butler, R.; Snelson, A., IR matrix isolation spectra of some perfluoro organic-free radicals Part 1. C2F5, J. Fluorine Chem., 1980, 15, 2, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1139(00)82586-5 . [all data]

Jacox, 1984
Jacox, M.E., Infrared spectrum of the pentafluoroethyl free radical trapped in solid argon in discharge sampling experiments, J. Phys. Chem., 1984, 88, 3, 445, https://doi.org/10.1021/j150647a024 . [all data]

Jacox, 1994
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1994, 464. [all data]

Compton and Rayner, 1982
Compton, D.A.C.; Rayner, D.M., An analysis of the vibrational spectra of pentafluoroiodoethane, n-perfluoropropyl iodide, and the corresponding perfluoroalkyl radicals, C2F5.cntdot. and n-C3F7.cntdot., J. Phys. Chem., 1982, 86, 9, 1628, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100206a030 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity

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