Potential of Fragments

In a recent study on the scaffold-hopping potential of fragment-based de novo design, among ACE inhibitors known lead structures 397b and... 

The appearance potentials for molecular ions (ionization potentials) and for fragment ions formed in the mass spectra of metallocenes and related compounds are listed in Table XIII. These appearance potentials have been used to calculate bond dissociation energies and heats of formation of organometallic compounds, but the results obtained must be treated cautiously because the appearance potentials of fragment ions include excess energy due to excited species. The values obtained for the heats of formation are best considered as upper limits, rather than precise determinations. The extent to which energy due to excited states can contribute... 

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