Abstract: Aromatic nitration by MeO+(H) N02, in essence a nitronium ion solvated by one methanol molecule, has been studied in the gas phase by using an integrated approach, based on the coordinate application of ICR, CI, and CID mass spectrometric methods with a highly complementary radiolytic technique. The latter can be used in gases at atmospheric pressure and allows direct evaluation of key mechanistic features, in particular of ...
[O'Connell, Daniel P.; Leblanc, Daniel F.; Cromley, Debra; Billheimer, Jeffrey; Rader, Daniel J.; Bachovchin, William W. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2012 , vol. 22, # 3 p. 1397 - 1401]