Criegee intermediates (CIs), also known as carbonyl oxide, are reactive intermediates that play an important role in the atmospheric chemistry. Investigation on the structures and reactivity of CIs is of fundamental importance in understanding the underlying mechanism of their atmospheric reactions. In sharp contrast to the intensively studied parent molecule (CH
2OO) and the alkyl-substituted derivatives, the knowledge about the fluorinated analogue CF
3C(H)OO is scarce. By carefully heating the triplet carbene CF
3CH in an O
2-doped Ar-matrix to 35 K, the elusive carbonyl oxide CF
3C(H)OO in syn- and anti-conformations has been generated and characterized with infrared (IR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy. The spectroscopic identification is supported by
18O-labeling experiments and quantum chemical calculations at the B3LYP/6-311++G(3df,3pd) and MP2/6-311++G(2d,2p) levels. Upon the long-wavelength irradiation (λ > 680 nm), both conformers of CF
3C(H)OO decompose to give trifluoroacetaldehyde CF
3C(H)O and simultaneously rearrange to the isomeric dioxirane, cyclic-CF
3CH(OO), which undergoes isomerization to the lowest-energy carboxylic acid CF
3C(O)OH upon UV-light excitation at 365 nm. The O
2-oxidation of CF
3CH
via the intermediacy of CF
3C(H)OO and cyclic-CF
3CH(OO) might provide new insight into the mechanism for the degradation of hydro-chlorofluorocarbon CF
3CHCl
2 (HCFC-123) in the atmosphere.
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