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The significance of hammett correlations in mass spectral decompositions
Author(s) -
Bursey Maurice M.,
Kissinger Peter T.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
organic mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9888
pISSN - 0030-493X
DOI - 10.1002/oms.1210030314
Subject(s) - ion , sigma , hammett equation , biphenyl , argument (complex analysis) , interpretation (philosophy) , mass spectrum , chemistry , polyatomic ion , computational chemistry , physics , reaction rate constant , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry , philosophy , kinetics , biochemistry , linguistics
An unexpected correlation of ion intensities with sigma constants was observed for the loss of substituents from biphenyl molecular ions. The observation is more easily reconciled with an argument based upon energy distributions in molecular ions than on interpretation in terms of rates.