Bond dissociation energies fluorine substitution effects

An important aspect of fluorine thermochemistry is the effect of increasing a-fluorine substitution on the C—F bond dissociation energy (BDE). This geminal stabilization is illustrated by the C—F BDE in the fluorinated methanes—the CHF series with associated C—F and C—H BDEs given below (for radical heats of formation used see Table 10, for halon atom heats of formation see Table 8) ... 

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