Gas-phase synthesis of the rare-gas carbene cation ArCH2+ using doubly ionised bromomethane as a superelectrophilic reagent

Abstract

The bimolecular reaction of mass-selected CH3Br2+/CH2BrH2+ dications with argon leads to the rare-gas carbene cation ArCH2+, which represents an example of a new kind of organo rare-gas compound.

Keywords

• charge-transfer reactions
• xenon-carbon bond
• molecular dications
• correlation energies
• proton-transport
• density
• ions
• reactivity
• dynamics
• krypton