Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, PO Box 1033 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
Abstract
The reactions of various amines (RNH2: R = H, CH3, C2H5 and i-C3H7) with the methoxy methyl cation (CH2OCH3) have been investigated using a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometer, and the experimental results are complemented with ab initio calculations. The amines show clear trends in their reactivities with variable degree of: (1) nucleophilic substitution, (2) addition-elimination and (3) hydride abstraction. In all cases, addition–elimination dominates over nucleophilic substitution, and for R ≠ H the observed reactions occur at the collisional limit. The potential energy profiles for all three reaction types correlate with the basicities of the amines: i.e. the more basic the amine—the more favorable is the reaction. In other words, nucleophilicity follows basicity in the gas phase.
Subject
Spectroscopy,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,General Medicine
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1. 12 Organic gas-phase ion chemistry;Annual Reports Section "B" (Organic Chemistry);2005