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Does Addition Of No2 To Carbon-Centered Radicals Yield Rono Or Rno2? An Investigation Using Distonic Radical Ions, Benjamin B. Kirk, Adam J. Trevitt, Stephen J. Blanksby

Adam Trevitt

Nitrogen dioxide is used as a "radical scavenger" to probe the position of carbon-centered radicals within complex radical ions in the gas phase. As with analogous neutral radical reactions, this addition results in formation of an [M + NO2](+) adduct, but the structural identity of this species remains ambiguous. Specifically, the question remains: do such adducts have a nitro-(RNO2) or nitrosoxy-(RONO) moiety, or are both isomers present in the adduct population? In order to elucidate the products of such reactions, we have prepared and isolated three distonic phenyl radical cations and observed their reactions with nitrogen dioxide in the gas …