| Literature DB >> 26926444 |
Xiaoping Zhang1,2, Xingfeng Bai1, Liwen Fang1, Kezhi Jiang3, Zuguang Li4.
Abstract
In negative electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of 4-nitrobenzyl 4-hydroxybenzoates, a decarboxylation reaction, which was significantly promoted by the presence of a nitro group on the benzyl group, competed with radical elimination reactions. Density functional theory calculations indicated that decarboxylation of deprotonated 4-nitrobenzyl vanillate occurred via a radical route involving homolytic cleavage of the Cbenzyl-O bond to give a triplet ion-neutral complex, followed by decarboxylative coupling.Entities:
Keywords: Decarboxylative coupling; MS/MS; Nitrobenzyl transfer; Nitrobenzyl vanillates; Triplet ion-neutral complex
Year: 2016 PMID: 26926444 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1339-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Soc Mass Spectrom ISSN: 1044-0305 Impact factor: 3.109