Elimination of hydrogen flouride from flourosuccinic acids. Kinetics of dehydroflourination of 2,2-diflourosuccinic acid
Abstract Elimination of hydrogen fluoride from 2,2-difluorosuccinic acid was found to follow second order kinetics with the activation energy of 16.9 kcal/mol. The probable mechanism is bimolecular trans-elimination giving fluorofumaric acid. No hydrogen-deuterium exchange was observed.