How Does Acetylcholine Lose Trimethylamine? A Density Functional Theory Study of Four Competing Mechanisms

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 238-246

  Lioe, Hadi ^a,b   Barlow, Christopher K ^a,b   O'Hair, Richard A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETING MECHANISMS; DOUBLE BONDS; ELIMINATION REACTIONS; ENERGY COLLISIONS; ENERGY PATHWAYS; FRAGMENT IONS; HYDRIDE MIGRATIONS; INDUCED DISSOCIATIONS; METHYL GROUPS; MOLECULE COMPLEXES; PROTON DONORS; PROTONATED; STABLE CONFORMERS; TRIMETHYL AMINES;

AMINATION; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; FORMING; GROUP TECHNOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; IONS; POSITIVE IONS; PROTON TRANSFER; PROTONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHYLAMINES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 58249084009     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasms.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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