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| Author(s): |
Tatiana Giroldo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2007-07-02 |
| Examining board members: |
José Manuel Riveros Nigra;
Pierre Mothé Esteves;
Fábio Cesar Gozzo;
Nelson Henrique Morgon;
Peter Wilhelm Tiedemann
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| Advisor: | Jose Manuel Riveros Nigra |
| Abstract | |
The study of ionic reactivity in the gas-phase has been widely explored with mass spectrometry techniques. This thesis reports experimental and theoretical results in three different areas of gas-phase ion chemistry. The ionic processes were experimentally studied by Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS or FT-ICR), a high resolution method that allows for the observation of ion/molecule reactions. For almost all cases, extensive theoretical calculations were necessary to clarify the mechanisms of the observed reactions and to establish the structures of the ions. The first part of the thesis deals with the possibility of deriving termochemical data from ion dissociation processes induced by infrared radiation. The method previously developed in our laboratory, which uses a heated tungsten wire as the infrared source, was compared with the dissociation induced by a CO2 laser. The results show that the former method can readily differentiate ions by their dissociation energy while the second one proved to be insensitive for the ions studied in this thesis (acetophenones derivatives and some alkylbenzenes). The second part deals with gas-phase nucleophilic aromatic displacement reactions. Reactions of gas-phase nucleophiles such as F-, OH- and some alcoxides with nitrobenzene and halobenzenes were extensively studied. The reaction mechanism and the role of ion-molecule complexes were established. Nucleophilic aromatic displacement can be very fast in the gas-phase even in the absence of activating groups in the ring. Gas-phase Sn Ar reactions may occur in competition with proton abstraction, or may N result from a secundary reaction following proton abstraction through a ion-molecule complex with life time enough to suffer rearrangements. The last part of the thesis deals with the reaction of eletrophilc ions, such as CFSUB>3+ , CCl3+ e CClF2+ , with acetophenone and substituted 3 3 2 acetophenones. Several reaction paths were experimentally observed, wich motivated a thorough investigation of these reactions to establish the structures of the ions and the mechanisms of the reactions. The combination of experimental results obtained with deuterated substrates and theoretical calculations suggest that all the different products observed result from initial attack of the eletrophilic ion on the carbonyl oxygen atom of acetophenone. (AU) | |