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The Trifluoromethyl Sulfinyl and Oxythiyl Radicals

Zhuang Wu, Jian Xu, Guohai Deng, Yan Lu, Liubov Sokolenko, Tarek Trabelsi, Joseph S. Francisco, André Kristopher Eckhardt, Peter R. Schreiner and Xiaoqing Zeng
Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 1505-1508. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705142

Highlight: Cover feature DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705533



The trifluoromethyl sulfinyl radical and the trifluoromethyl oxathiyl radical, were generated in the gas phase and then trapped in solid noble gas matrices for characterization with IR and UV/Vis spectroscopy. Subsequent UV light irradiation resulted in an unprecedented isomerization from a sulfinyl radical to an oxathiyl radical by surmounting a formidable activation barrier, despite that such geometrical transformation has been computationally predicted for decades.