| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1195815 | Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry | 2006 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) for use in ion preparation can be generated in the gas phase by the neutral–neutral reaction of trimethylsilyl cyanide (Me3SiCN) and water in a flowing afterglow mass spectrometer. We demonstrate that the approach can be used to generate a wide range of HCN solvated ions such as F−(HCN), Cl−(HCN), CN−(HCN), PhNO2·−(HCN), Me3SiO−(HCN),and PhSiF4−(HCN), many of which are otherwise difficult to generate. The bond dissociation energy of CN−(HCN), generated by using this approach, has been measured by using energy-resolved collision-induced issociation (CID) to be 0.87 ± 0.07 eV.
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Authors
Silvi A. Chacko, Ian H. Krouse, Loubna A. Hammad, Paul G. Wenthold,