A selected ion flow tube study of the reactions of gas-phase cations with PSCl3

Polar Acetalization and Transacetalization in the Gas Phase: The Eberlin Reaction

“…The ion is not stable enough to exist under normal conditions but is created in situ by mixing sulfuric acid and nitric acid or in the form of ionic salts such as nitronium tetrafluoroborate NO 2 + ·BF 4 - . Gaseous NO 2 + is, however, long-lived, and its gas-phase chemistry has been the subject of several studies. , The nitronium ion displays the desired amphoteric acid−base Lewis properties required for it to undergo Eberlin reactions, and these reactions have been observed with cyclic acetals (Scheme ) 19 …”

“…225 Gaseous NO 2 + is, however, long-lived, and its gas-phase chemistry has been the subject of several studies. 226,227 The nitronium ion displays the desired amphoteric acid-base Lewis properties required for it to undergo Eberlin reactions, and these reactions have been observed with cyclic acetals (Scheme 19). 153…”

Fragmentation of the valence electronic states of PSCl3+ studied by threshold photoelectron–photoion coincidence spectroscopy

“…From these data a plot of the relative ion abundance as a function of photon energy, i.e. the breakdown diagram, can be constructed, discussed more fully in the context of bimolecular reactions of PSCl 3 with gas-phase cations [8].…”

“…In the following paper [8], the results are compared with a study of the kinetics and product yields of the reactions of a range of atomic and molecular cations, whose recombination energy span the range 6.4 to 21.6 eV, with PSCl 3 . Potentially, threshold photoelectron spectroscopy (TPES) has two advantages over fixed-energy He I photoelectrum spectroscopy.…”