Molecular Salt Effects in the Gas Phase: Tuning the Kinetic Basicity of [HCCLiCl](-) and [HCCMgCl2](-) by LiCl and MgCl2

George N Khairallah; Gabriel da Silva; Richard AJ O'Hair

Journal article

Molecular Salt Effects in the Gas Phase: Tuning the Kinetic Basicity of [HCCLiCl](-) and [HCCMgCl2](-) by LiCl and MgCl2

George N Khairallah, Gabriel da Silva, Richard AJ O'Hair

Angewandte Chemie International Edition | WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201404362

University of Melbourne Researchers

George Khairallah Author Chemistry

Richard O'Hair Author Chemistry

Gabriel da Silva Author Chemical Engineering

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Awarded by Australian Research Council (ARC)

Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the Australian Research Council (ARC) for financial support through grant numbers DP1096134, DP110103844, FT130101304, and the ARC CoE program. We thank Edward Whiting and Charlene Thum for carrying out some preliminary experiments and John Barker for help incorporating Mg atoms into the MultiWell code.