. Can. J. Chem. 59, 1779Chem. 59, (1981. A pulsed electron beam, high pressure mass spectrometer has been used to determine equilibrium constants for the exchange of CH,Hg+ between bases; CH3Hg.Bl+ + B2 * CH3Hg.B2+ + B,. A series of aromatic, hydrocarbon bases has been studied at 417 K and several nitrogen bases have been studied at 580 K. There is a good linear correlation between differences in CH,Hg+ affinity (AGO) and H+ affinity for bases in each series. The single sulfur base examined ((C3H7),S) shows anomalously high relative affinity for CH,Hg+ compared with H+ while two oxygen bases (CH,COOCH, and C6H,N02) show lesser relative affinity. These results are in qualitative agreement with the hard-soft acid base theory. AHo and ASo values have been obtained from Arrhenius plots. For a pair of aromatic bases (toluene-ethylbenzene) AHo is of the same magnitude as that for H+ and ASo may be calculated using partition functions for translation and external rotation. For toluene/methylacetate the difference in binding energy is much greater for H+ than for CH,Hg+ and a similar calculation of ASo gives a result not consistent with the expenmental value.