Ionization of n-Paraffin Molecules

Abstract

THE ionization potentials of the members of the n-paraffin series of hydrocarbons have been calculated on the assumption that the electron which is removed comes from a symmetrical molecular orbital1. Coggeshall2 has used these molecular orbitals to investigate the density of positive charge in the ion and has shown that there is no relation between this density and the mode of fragmentation of the ion. Field and Franklin3 have suggested that there might be some connexion.