✦ LIBER ✦
α-Distonic ions as transient species in the reactions of metastable alkyl benzoate radical cations
✍ Scribed by Henri Edouard Audier; Arielle Milliet; Georges Sozzi; Steen Hammerum
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 411 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-5174
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✦ Synopsis
The key intermediates in the fragmentation of metastable methyl and ethyl benzoate radical cations are a-and j-distonic isomers of the molecular ions. The a-distonic isomers are also formed by fragmentation of longer chain alkyl benzoates, but may not be long-lived, stable species. Rearrangement of the a-distonic ions prior to fragmentation can take place, but (re)formation of the benzoate molecular ions does not occur.