Letter: Silver mediated ester bond formation in the gas phase: Substrate structure is important

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 367-372

  Khairallah, George N ^a,b   Waters, Tom ^a,b   O'Hair, Richard A J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c ARC Centre of Excellence in Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology

Author keywords

Allyl iodide; C I bond activation; C O bond formation; DFT calculations; Electrospray; Gas phase ion molecule reactions; Methyl iodide; Silver acetate cluster cations; Silver iodide cluster cations; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTER; IODIDE; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GAS;

ACETATES; ESTERS; GASES; IODIDES; SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 39749124960     PISSN: 14690667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1255/ejms.888     Document Type: Article

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