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Insight into the gas phase dissociation of CF3CH2I and its reactions with H and OH by first principles

Shaan Ameer1, Monika Tomar2, Pradip Kumar Jha3

  • 1Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India.

Journal of Molecular Modeling
|October 19, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
CF3CH2IDissociationDmol3HydroiodofluorocarbonsRadical scavenging

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