Single electron transfer reaction of perfluoroalkyl halides

4 Single electron transfer reaction of perfluoroalkyl halides 

The SET reactions can be initiated by organic anions such as carbanions and heteroatom anions, reducing organic reagents such as tetrakis(N,N-dimethylamino)ethene, low valent metal, and electrochemical reduction. Irradiation by UV light is sometimes useful for the acceleration of SET reactions, but it is not necessarily required when good electron donors, for instance thiolates instead of thiols, are used. The chain reactions of, in particular, less reactive perfluoroalkyl bromides are inhibited by species such as nitrobenzene, para-dinitrobenzene, and hydroquinone [3,6]. The reactivity order of perfluoroalkyl hahdes 

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