Calculations at the MP2/6–31G**//MP2/6–31G** level show that substitution of chlorine for fluorine has little effect on the stabilities of classical and α-halo isomers of C2H4X+, but strongly stabilizes the bridged isomer.
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Charles H. Reynolds (1990) studied this question.
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