Gas-phase polar cycloadditions
Abstract
The dilute gas-phase environment of mass spectrometers provides versatile and convenient medium in which chemists can form a great variety of ionic species and study their intrinsic reactivity exploring reaction mechanisms and screening for new reactions and their applications. Recent and illustrative examples of gas-phase polar cycloadditions of even and odd-electrons ions, which have been observed (some for the first time) in the solvent- and counter ion-free environment of mass spectrometers, are presented. Synthetic and analytical applications of such reactions and correlations with analogous reactions observed in solution are also discussed.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
- Pub Date:
- July 2004
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2004IJMSp.235..263E
- Keywords:
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- Cycloaddition reactions;
- Pericyclic reactions;
- Mass spectrometry;
- Structure selective gas-phase ion/molecule reactions;
- Reaction mechanisms