Fluorine homolytic dissociation

Fluorine owes its unparalleled reactivity, on the one hand, to the ease of its homolytic dissociation into radicals (only 37.8 kcal mol , compared with 58.2 kcal mor for CI2) and, on the other hand, to its very high redox potentials of +3.06 V and +2.87 V, respectively, in acidic and basic aqueous media [8]. 

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