[minijumbuk]

So I got a question asking for the molecular formula of a CFC containing 1 carbon atom and 1 fluorine atom, and NO hydrogen atoms.

I was thinking that there may be co-ordinate covalent bonds or something, and wrote:
CFClx.

So my question is, are there any CFCs out there with formula, say, CFCl, or CFCl2, CFCl4 etc etc?

[nj_bartel]

There may be a CFCl carbene, but if there is, it would only exist in a special solution because carbenes are very reactive.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbene

[minijumbuk]

I googled CFCl2 just then too. It's there!

[sjb]

As a (free) radical perhaps, but it is not that stable by itself (though it's probably more stable than e.g .CH₃ due to the electronegative halogens dispersing the electron.

Can you provide some of the links you've found?

[DrCMS]

A CFC with only 1 carbon and 1 fluorine must be CFCl₃.
Trichlorofluoromethane, also called freon-11, CFC-11, or R-11.

[minijumbuk]

As a (free) radical perhaps, but it is not that stable by itself (though it's probably more stable than e.g .CH₃ due to the electronegative halogens dispersing the electron.

Can you provide some of the links you've found?

I just typed in CFCl2 in google. But one of the websites I found is http://www.iupac-kinetic.ch.cam.ac.uk/datasheets/gas/oClOx41_HO_CHFCl2.pdf