The conformational properties and the geometric structure of perfluoromethyl fluorocarbonyl peroxide, CF
3OOC(O)F, ha
ve been studied by matrix IR spectroscopy, gas electron diffraction, and quantum chemical calculations(HF, B3LYP, and MP2 methods with 6-311G* basis sets). Matrix IR spectra imply a mixture of syn and anti conformers (orientation of the C=O bond relati
ve to the O-O bond) with
H =
Hanti -
Hsyn = 2.16(22) kcal/mol.At room temperature, the contribution of the anti rotamer is about 3.0%. The O-O bond (1.422(15) Å) is withinthe experimental uncertainties equal to those in related symmetrically substituted peroxides CF
3OOCF
3 andFC(O)OOC(O)F (1.419(20) and 1.419(9) Å, respecti
vely), and the dihedral angle
(COOC) (111(5)
) is intermediatebetween the
values in these two compounds (123(4)
and 83.5(14)
, respecti
vely).