Аннотация:
Ultraviolet laser photolysis of dilute mixtures of F2 and C2H4 in solid argon form a 2-fluoroethyl radical by addition of translationally ‘hot’ as well as thermal F atoms to ethene; at T > 20 K the major channel is the thermal reaction, which converts up to 25% of ethene to 2-fluoroethyl radical.