The gas phase solvation of substituted benzenes by ammonia was studied by triple quadrupole mass spectrometry supported by DFT calculations in an effort to better understand size effects and substituent identity on the structure and reactivity of the clusters.  Reactivity, principally the formation of substituted aniline compounds, was found to be highly dependent both on the cluster size and the substituent identity.

Structure and reactivity of substituted benzene halides clustered with ammonia

245th National Meeting (2013)

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