Journal article
Low energy acetoin ions CH3C(O)C(H)(OH)CH3.+ decompose to CH3CO. and CH3CHOH+ via a remarkable “hidden rearrangement”
Abstract
Tandem mass spectrometry based experiments on D and 18O labelled acetoin isotopomers show that the title reaction is not just a simple bond cleavage, but rather involves rearrangement via ion—dipole complexes; the intermediacy of a charge-transfer complex is proposed to account for the observed product ratios.
Authors
Suh D; Burgers PC; Terlouw JK
Journal
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 144, No. 3, pp. l1–l7
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
6 1995
DOI
10.1016/0168-1176(95)04156-f
ISSN
1387-3806