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It's stable, but the chemistry to get there isn't trivial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organofluorine_chemistry (my Organic Chemistry class was more than 25 years ago, but I did research on drugs containing fluorine in grad school; we had to parameterize the force field specially, the bond has a ton of energy in it,

When I wrote my comment I knew somebody was going to come along and think I was implying CF3 was explosive.



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