Peter S. J. Canning, Katharine McCrudden, Howard Maskill and Brian Sexton
Arenediazonium salts decompose thermally and photochemically in trifluoroethanol to yield trifluoroethyl ethers and (in part by fluoride abstraction from the solvent) fluoroarenes; the less reactive compounds in trifluoroethanol decompose readily in ethanol to give arenes in a radical reaction involving abstraction of the α-hydrogen from the ethanol.