Perhalomethyl cations

Prior syntheses of long-lived perhalomethyl cations have been achieved by halide abstraction by use of either a strong Lewis acid (in superacidic or S02C1F solvent media) or Ag+ (vide supra), but no routes to such carbocations through oxidative removal of a halogen bound to carbon were known. The objectives of the current work have been to provide structural and spectroscopic data that, thus far, have been lacking for these systems, and to provide oxidative routes to... 

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