Intracluster ion-molecule reactions of Dimer cations of phenylsilanes
H. Ishikawa, J. Hashimoto, Y. Shimanuki, and N. Mikami,
J. Phys. Chem. A 103, 2007 (1999).

Intracluster ion-molecule reactions of dimer cations of various phenylsilanes were investigated in order to elucidate reaction mechanisms of phenylsilane cation reported in the gas-phase FT-ICR study. Two types of reactions, SiR3 elimination and SiR3+ transfer, were observed. In the latter case, our observation strongly supported that a precursor of the reaction has a π-type complex configuration, [C6H6·SiR2]+, which has been proposed before. On the contrary, in the former case, a dimer cation forms a reaction intermediate and then it dissociates preferentially to a larger exothermic channel.

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