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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Fluor Chem. 2023 Feb 21;267:110106. doi: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2023.110106

Fig. 9.

Fig. 9.

(A) Activation of arene ring by perpendicular through-space electron-donating fluorine interaction, as opposed to traditional deactivation by covalently bound fluorine. (B) Ab initio results indicating that the fluorine substituent stabilizes the Wheland intermediate. Adapted from Ref. [53] with permission.