The gas phase reactivity of the dimethylchloronium ion with alkylbenzenes

JA Stone, MS Lin, J Varah

Index: Stone, John A.; Lin, Margaret S.; Varah, Jeffrey Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1981 , vol. 59, p. 2412 - 2416

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Abstract

The reactivity of the dimethylchloronium ion with a series of aromatic hydrocarbons has been studied in a high pressure mass spectrometer ion source using the technique of reactant ion monitoring. Benzene is unreactive but all others, from toluene to mesitylene, react by CH3+ transfer to yield σ-bonded complexes. The relative rate of reaction increases with increasing exothermicity in line with current theories of nucleophilic displacement ...