Gaseous [C2H3O]+ ions

✍ Scribed by R. Weber; K. Levsen

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1076-5174
• DOI: 10.1002/oms.1210150307

✦ Synopsis

C,H,O]' ions with the initial structures [CH,CO]', [ICH,-CH=d]+ and [CH,CHO]' cannot be distinguished on the basis of their collisional activation spectra, demonstrating that these isomers interconbert at energies below their threshold for decomposition. Self-protonation of ketene leads to the [CH,CO]' ion, while the [C2H,0]' ion generated from glycerol most probably has the structure of an oxygen protonated ketene [CH2=C=0H]'.