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Pascal Gerbaux
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Avenue Maistriau 19, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

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Charge exchange in tandem mass spectrometry: dissociative single electron capture by doubly-charged toluene cations

Dorina Fati and Bernard Leyh^*,b
Laboratoire de Dynamique Moléculaire, Département de Chimie, Bâtiment B6c, Université de Liège, B-4000 Sart-Tilman, Belgium. E-mail:

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Translational to vibrational energy conversion during surface-induced dissociation of n-butylbenzene molecular ions colliding at self-assembled monolayer surfaces

Sung-Chan Jo and R. Graham Cooks^*
Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. E-mail:

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Is allylphosphine a carbon or a phosphorus base in the gas phase?

Maria del Carmen Sicilia,^a Otilia Mó,^a Manuel Yáñez,^a Jean-Claude Guillemin,^b Jean-François Gal^c and Pierre-Charles Maria^c
aDepartamento de Química, C-9. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Cantoblanco, 28049-Madrid, Spain
^bLaboratoire de Synthèse et Activation de Biomolécules, UMR-6052 CNRS, ENSCR, 35700 Rennes, France
^cChimie des Matériaux Organiques et Métalliques, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France

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A quantum chemical study of the protonation of phenylphosphine and its halogenated derivatives

Pham-Cam Nam,^a,b Pascal Gerbaux^c,d and Minh Tho Nguyen^a,*
aDepartment of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail:
^bFaculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Danang, Vietnam
^cLaboratoire de Chimie Organique, Universit de Mons-Hainaut, Avenue Maistriau 19, B-7000 Mons, Belgium

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Stereochemical interactions in ammonium dications, hypervalent diammonium cation-radicals and ammonium radicals. A B3-MP2 computational study

Frantiaek Turecek
Department of Chemistry, Bagley Hall, Box 351700, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 981, USA

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Ionmolecule reactions of [C, H₃, S]⁺ ions and evidence for long-lived triplet CH₃S⁺

Mariano Teruel,^a,c Patricia R.P. de Moraes,^b Luciano A. Xavier,^b José M. Riveros^b*
aUniversidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, INFIQC, RA-5000 Córdoba, Argentina
^bInstitute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo, Caixa Postal 26077, São Paulo, Brazil, CEP 05513-970. E-mail:

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Potential role of methyl-radical adducts with carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere

Detlef Schröder,^* Marija Semialjac and Helmut Schwarz

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The kinetic method as a structural diagnostic tool: ionized α-diketones as loosely one-electron bonded diacylium ion dimers

Eduardo C. Meurer,^a Fabio C. Gozzo,^a R. Augusti^b and Marcos N. Eberlin^*a
aState University of Campinas UNICAMP, Institute of Chemistry CP6154, 13083-970 Campinas, SP Brazil. E-mail:
^bFederal University of Minas Gerais UFMG, Department of Chemistry, CP 702, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte, MG Brazil

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Gas-phase bimolecular reactions between ^·CH₂(CH₂)_nC⁺=O distonic ions and pyridine: a combined experimental and theoretical study

Pascal Gerbaux,^* Pascale Wantier, Micheline Bury, Claude De Meyer, Daniel Finet and Yves Van Haverbeke
Organic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Mons-Hainaut, 19 Avenue Maistriau, B-7000 Mons, Belgium. E-mail:

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Reactions of CH₃CHO^·+ and of CH₃COH^·+ with water upon Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance conditions

H. Nedev, G. van der Rest, P. Mourgues^* and H.E. Audier
Laboratoire des Mécanismes Réactionnels, UMR CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128, Palaiseau, France. E-mail:

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A ring walk of methylene groups in toluene radical cations. An extension of the toluene-cycloheptatriene rearrangement of aromatic radical cations. Theory and experiment

Hans-Friedrich Grützmacher and Natascha Harting

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Reactions of the ionized enol tautomer of acetanilide: elimination of HNCO via a novel rearrangement

Lisa N. Heydorn,^a Lynn M. Carter,^b Richard D. Bowen^b and Johan K. Terlouw^a*
aDepartment of Chemistry, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W., Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M1, Canada. E-mail:
^bDepartment of Chemical and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK

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Fragmentation mechanisms of protonated benzylamines. Electrospray ionisation-tandem mass spectrometry study and ab initio molecular orbital calculations

Sophie Bourcier and Yannik Hoppilliard^*
DCMR, UMR CNRS 7651, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France. E-mail:

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The gas-phase basicity and proton affinity of 1,3,5-cycloheptatrieneenergetics, structure and interconversion of dihydrotropylium ions

Jean-Yves Salpin,^a,b,c Michael Mormann,^a Jeanine Tortajada,^b Minh-Tho Nguyen^c and Dietmar Kuck^a*
bUMR CNRS 8587 "Analyse et environnement", Bâtiment des Sciences, Université d'Évry Val d'Essonne, Boulevard Fran!ois Mitterrand, F-91025 Évry CEDEX, France
^cDepartment of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 F, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

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Gas-phase reactivity of silver and copper coordinated monosaccharide cations studied by electrospray ionization and tandem mass spectrometry

Laurence Boutreau, Emmanuelle Léon,^a Jean-Yves Salpin,^a Badia Amekraz,^b Christophe Moulin^b and Jeanine Tortajada^a*
aLaboratoire Analyse et Environnement, UMR CNRS 8587, Université d'Evry, Val d'Essonne Bât. des Sciences, Boulevard François Mitterrand, 91025 Evry Cedex, France. E-mail
^bCEA SACLAY, DEN/DPC/SECR, Laboratoire de Spéciation des radionucléides et des Molécules, Bâtiment 391, 91191 Gif/Yvette Cedex, France

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Gas-phase basicity of glycine, alanine, proline, serine, lysine, histidine and some of their peptides by the thermokinetic method

G. Bouchoux^a and J-Y. Salpin^b
aLaboratoire des Mécanismes Réactionnels, UMR CNRS 7651, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
^bLaboratoire Analyse et Environnement, UMR 8587, Bâtiment des Sciences, Université d'Evry, boulevard F. Mitterrand, 91025 Evry cedex, France

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Electrospray mass spectrometry of 2-aminotroponimines and 2-aminotropones

Rosa M. Claramunt,^a Dionisia Sanz,^a Marta Pérez Torralba,^a José Elguero,^a Pierre Sanchez,^b Christine Enjalbal,^b Jean Martinez^b and Jean-Louis Aubagnac^*,b
aDepartamento de Química Orgánica y Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, UNED, Senda del Rey 9, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
^bUMR5810, Laboratoire des Aminoacides, Peptides et Protéines, Universités de Montpellier I et II, F-34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

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The application of liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation in the structural characterization of acylated flavonol O-glycosides from the seeds of Carrichtera annua

Filip Cuyckens,^a Abdelaaty A. Shahat,^a Hilde Van den Heuvel,^a Khaled A. Abdel-Shafeek,^b Moustafa M. El-Messiry,^b Medhat M. Seif-El Nasr,^b Luc Pieters,^a Arnold J. Vlietinck^a and Magda Claeys^a*
aUniversity of Antwerp (UA), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerp, Belgium. E-mail:
^bDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Research Centre, 12311 Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

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