Electron-transfer-catalyzed dimerization of trans-anethole: detection of the distonic tetramethylene radical cation intermediate by extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

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Author	Márquez, César Augusto Moreno Wang, Hao Yang Fabbretti, Francesco Metzger, Jürgen O.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	The desolvating droplets of EESI were used as microreactor for the mass spectrometric study of short-lived transients of reactions in condensed liquid phase in the millisecond time region. The electron-transfer-catalyzed dimerization of trans-anethole was investigated and the intermediates in the radical cation chain reaction were isolated and characterized by MS-MS. The distonic tetramethylene radical cation 3(o)(*+) was detected as intermediate, and its cyclization to give the cyclobutane radical cation 3(c)(*+) was observed giving strong evidence that the reaction takes place stepwise.
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DOI	10.1021/ja806791c
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.metzger.chemie.uni-oldenburg.de/publikationen/pdf/121.pdf
PubMed reference number	19049280
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1021/ja806791c
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	130
Issue Number	51
Journal	Journal of the American Chemical Society
Language	English
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