Organic & biomolecular chemistry

Investigation of the gas phase reactivity of the 1-adamantyl radical using a distonic radical anion approach

DG Harman, SJ Blanksby

Index: Harman, David G.; Blanksby, Stephen J. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2007 , vol. 5, # 21 p. 3495 - 3503

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Abstract

The gas phase reactions of the bridgehead 3-carboxylato-1-adamantyl radical anion were observed with a series of neutral reagents using a modified electrospray ionisation linear ion trap mass spectrometer. This distonic radical anion was observed to undergo processes suggestive of radical reactivity including radical–radical combination reactions, substitution reactions and addition to carbon–carbon double bonds. The rate constants for reactions of ...