Polycyclic aromatics proton affinities

We turn to the chemical behavior of cycloalkane holes. Several classes of reactions were observed for these holes (1) fast irreversible electron-transfer reactions with solutes that have low adiabatic IPs (ionization potentials) and vertical IPs (such as polycyclic aromatic molecules) (2) slow reversible electron-transfer reactions with solutes that have low adiabatic and high vertical IPs (3) fast proton-transfer reactions (4) slow proton-transfer reactions that occur through the formation of metastable complexes and (5) very slow reactions with high-IP, low-PA (proton affinity) solutes. [Pg.323]

Vandiver, V.J. Leasme, C.S. Eiceman, G.A. Proton affinity equilibria for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at atmospheric pressure in ion mobility spectrometry. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes 1985, 66(2), 223—238. [Pg.413]