Electrophilic aromatic substitution and single-electron transfer (SET) by the phenylium ion in the gas phase: characterization of a long-lived SET intermediate
✍ Scribed by Shengjun Yao; Xiang Zhang; Jing Zhou; Rong Qian; Zhe Xu; Fang Fang; Yuanlong Wei; Cuihong Wang; Shuai Yuan; Yinlong Guo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 338 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
- DOI
- 10.1002/jms.1467
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Gas‐phase mass spectrometric studies and calculations were performed for the reaction of naked phenylium ion with several benzene halides. From these reactions, the molecular ion for biphenyl as the predominant product was obtained only from the reaction of phenylium ions with iodobenzene and bromobenzene. Furthermore, through the collision‐induced dissociation (CID) of the ion at m/z 281, the only dissociation observed is the loss of a phenyl radical, which indicates that a single‐electron transfer (SET) mechanism might have occurred within the reaction. Additionally, according to the comparison between the CID experiments of those isomeric compounds of the σ‐complexes and the CID experiment of the ion at m/z 281 captured in the ion trap, we have also defined the captured ion at m/z 281 as an SET‐intimate ion pair rather than those of σ‐complexes or the diphenyliodonium. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.