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Publication: Kinetics for Tautomerizations and Dissociations of Triglycine Radical Cations

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Title Kinetics for Tautomerizations and Dissociations of Triglycine Radical Cations
Authors/Editors* Chi-Kit Siu, Junfang Zhao, Julia Laskin, Ivan K. Chu, Alan C. Hopkinson, K.W. Michael Siu
Where published* Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
How published* Journal
Year* 2009
Volume 20
Number
Pages 996-1005
Publisher
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Link http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasms.2009.01.014
Abstract
Fragmentations of tautomers of the alpha-centered radical triglycine radical cation, [GGG•]+, [GG•G]+, and [G•GG]+, are charge-driven, giving b -type ions; these are processes that are facilitated by a mobile proton, as in the fragmentation of protonated triglycine (Rodriquez, C.F. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2001, 123, 3006 – 3012). By contrast, radical centers are less mobile. Two mechanisms have been examined theoretically utilizing density functional theory and Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus modeling: (1) a direct hydrogen-atom migration between two ?-carbons, and (2) a two-step proton migration involving canonical [GGG]• + as an intermediate. Predictions employing the latter mechanism are in good agreement with results of recent CID experiments (Chu, I.K. et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc.2008, 130, 7862 – 7872).
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