Abstract
AbstractThe loss of alkanes from ionized aliphatic alkanes, alcohols, ketones, ethers or amines takes place by a 1,2‐elimination involving a CC bond cleavage and the specific rearrangement of a hydrogen atom to the incipient radical. This reaction should normally occur within a limited distance between the reactant sites. This condition is accomplished with most probability during a concerted (or quasi‐concerted) mechanism, before the completion of the CC bond cleavage. The same reaction may also occur, however, in ion–neutral complexes, i.e. by a non‐concerted mechanism, after the CC bond cleavage is completed, provided that the probability is large enough for ion–neutral complexes to adopt suitable reactant configurations. This depends essentially on the proportion of possible reacting sites in the whole molecular ion.
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