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Squaric acid difluoride
Senzlober, Michael,Buerger, Hans,Eujen, Reint,Gelessus, Achim,Thiel, Walter
, p. 99 - 104 (1999)
Hitherto unknown squaric acid difluoride (3,4-difluoro-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione) (1a) has been synthesized in 71% yield by gas phase fluorination of squaric acid dichloride (1c) with KF at 250°C. (1a) has been characterized by multinuclear NMR, mass, IR and Raman spectra. The IR spectrum is in excellent agreement with its ab initio prediction (MP2, 6-311 + G(2d, p)). The vacuum thermolysis of (1a) at 700°C does not yield the expected decarbonylation product FCCF (2a) although the precursor of the latter, F2CCCO, and three C3F4 isomers (propyne, allene, cyclopropene) which are also found as decomposition products of (2a) have been identified.
