En. Shaposhnikova et al., THE ESR STUDY OF REACTIVITY OF PERFLUOROACETYLDIISOPROPYLMETHYL RADICAL, Russian chemical bulletin, 46(11), 1997, pp. 1851-1854
The kinetics of hydrogen abstraction from hydrocarbons by the air-stab
le perfluoroacetyldiisopropylmethyl radical was studied by ESR, and a
reaction mechanism was proposed. The degree of delocalization of the u
npaired electron in the model C(5)F-3-C(1)(.)[C(2)(O(4))C(3)F-3]C(6)F-
3 radical was calculated by the MNDO/PM3 method in the UHF approximati
on. For the conformation in which the CO group lies in the plane passi
ng through the C(1), C(2), and C(5) atoms, the electron density on the
O atom is 0.22.