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A revised mechanism for the structure‐specific gas phase enol cation‐cyclobutanol reaction
Author(s) -
Bouma Willem J.,
MacLeod John K.,
Radom Leo
Publication year - 1981
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.1210160706
Subject(s) - enol , methylene , ion , deuterium , ion cyclotron resonance , chemistry , molecule , reaction mechanism , gas phase , photochemistry , fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance , cyclotron , medicinal chemistry , organic chemistry , atomic physics , physics , catalysis
Ion cyclotron resonance studies using deuterium labelled substrates have revealed a more complex mechanism than previously proposed for the structure‐specific ion/molecule reaction of the [C 2 H 4 O] +˙ and [C 3 H 6 O] +˙ enol ions with neutral cyclobutanol. This requires the intermediacy of a species in which all of the methylene groups present in both the reactant ion and neutral can become equivalent.