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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BadThad, post: 2093200, member: 17261&quot;]FYI - Kentucky has&nbsp; PhD in chemistry and I agree with him. Fluorine is one of the LEAST reactive elements on the periodic table!</p><p><br /></p><p>Fluorine is the worst leaving group in organic chemistry, it&#039;s not going to dissociate from a C-F bond. The are only a few scenarios where F will leave, i.e. attached to a carbonyl carbon or an aromatic ring, even then it would only happen with a very specific pathway/reaction involving chemicals only a chemist would have at hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Halogen groups that are good leaving groups are iodine, bromine, &amp; chlorine.....and fluorine behaves NOTHING like those.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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