Oxygen thermodynamic situation/expected

Figure 10.20 Thermodynamic situation and expected diffusion profiles of [Vo ] and [14 "] with time upon an abrupt change of oxygen activity at the surface of a specimen x=0. Note...

Do fluorine substituents have an effect on thermodynamic stabilisation, or not We might expect fluorine to have a similar stabilising influence to that of oxygen on the formation of radicals (Figure 4.44). However, we have already noted the schizophrenic nature of fluorine in carbanions, where inductive electron withdrawal wrestles with I, electron repulsion, and it is a similar situation with radicals. 

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