title: Iodotrifluoroethylene
text: # Iodotrifluoroethylene
  
  Iodotrifluoroethylene is the organofluorine compound with the formula C $_2F$ $_3I.$ It is a volatile colorless liquid.
  
  ## Preparation and reactions
  
  It is prepared by iodination of trifluorovinyl lithium.
  
  Iodotrifluoroethylene reacts with cadmium metal to give $CdC_2F_3(I).$
  
  It reacts with nitric oxide under UV light, producing a nitroso compound, with iodine as a byproduct:
  
      2 C $_2F$ $_3I$ + 2 NO → 2 C $_2F$ $_3NO$ + I $_2$
  