Gas-phase synthesis and reactivity of the lithium acetate enolate anion, -CH2CO2Li

MM Meyer; GN Khairallah; SR Kass; RAJ O'Hair

Journal article

Gas-phase synthesis and reactivity of the lithium acetate enolate anion, -CH2CO2Li

MM Meyer, GN Khairallah, SR Kass, RAJ O'Hair

Angewandte Chemie International Edition | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2009

DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900245

Abstract

Aerial pingpong: The lithium acetate enolate anion, the prototypical lithium salt of an α- deprotonated carboxylate, was prepared in the gas phase by electrospray ionization (ESI) and collision-induced ionization (CID). Its structure, reactivity, and energetics are presented along with the results of high-level computations. © 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

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Gas phase studies to catalyze a better understanding of metal reactivity

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Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

S.R.K. thanks the National Science Foundation and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Advanced Computational Research for support of this research. R.A.J.O. thanks the Australian Research Council for financial support via Grant DP0558430 and via the ARC CoE for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology.