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Title: Structure-reactivity studies of organometallic cations in the gas phase by using Fourier transform mass spectrometry

Miscellaneous ·
OSTI ID:7243134

This dissertation describes four areas of study involving organosilicon and organosilicon transition metal ion chemistry in the gas phase: structural elucidation of isomeric silylenium ions by using specific ion-molecule reactions, rearrangement of nascent [alpha]-silyl-substituted carbenium ions, dyotropic rearrangement of organo-silylenium ions, and generation and characterization of transition metal-silylene and -silene cationic complexes. Ion-molecule reactions with methanol and isotopically labeled ethene were developed that can structurally distinguish isomeric alkylsilylenium ions. The unimolecular rearrangement of simple nascent [alpha]-silyl-substituted carbenium ions in the gas phase was explored. These incipient carbenium ions undergo 1,2-migration from silicon to carbon to yield a more stable (thermodynamically) silylenium ion with the following relative migratory aptitudes. The mechanism of ethene extrusion for unimolecular dissociation of (CH[sub 3])[sub 3]Si[sup +] was studied. CAD combined with isotopic exchange reactions suggest that (CH[sub 3])[sub 3]Si[sup +] and (C[sub 2]H[sub 5])(CH[sub 3])Si H[sup +] interconvert upon activation. A mechanism involving a concerted 1,2-hydrogen/1,2-methyl migration is proposed. The first example of efficient ion isomerization, (C[sub 2]H[sub 5])SiH[sup +][sub 2] to (CH[sub 3])[sub 2]SiH[sup +], without subsequent dissociation by using sustained [open quotes]off-resonance[close quotes] collision-activated dissociation (SORI-CAD), is also described in the gas phase. The first examples of generation and characterization of isomeric iron-silylene and -silene cationic complexes have been presented. The structure-reactivity characteristics of these species have been explored by both CAD and ion-molecule reactions with ethene, water, and benzene. CAD failed to yield structural information. Reaction with ethene-D[sub 4] and ethene-[sup 13]C[sub 2] provided evidence for formation of iron-silene and iron-silylene species.

Research Organization:
North Dakota Univ., Grand Forks, ND (United States)
OSTI ID:
7243134
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Thesis (Ph.D.)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English