Conformational energy calculations were employed to determine the effect of hydrogen-fluorine defects on the conformation of the polytrifluoroethylene chain. It was determined that the 31helix was energetically favored for all but the highly syndiotactic polymers, which favored the all-trans conformation. The incorporation of head-to-head linkages into the polymer chain increased the Conformational energy of the 31helix while the Conformational energy of the all-trans form decreased. The energies of these two conformations did not equalize until the head-to-head concentration reached 20 to 30%, depending on the tacticity of the polymer. The trans, gauche, trans, gauche' conformation was also determined to be energetically favorable for the syndiotactic polymer, but both tacticity defects and head-to-head linkages caused a rapid increase in the Conformational energy. This was, therefore, concluded to be unlikely structure when chemical defects are incorporated into the polymer chain.