Ionic Processes in the Gas Phase

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Potential Energy Surfaces and Theory of Unimolecular Dissociation....Pages 1-6
Scanning Methods for Double-Focussing Mass Spectrometers....Pages 7-21
Charge Exchange Mass Spectrometry....Pages 23-40
Isotope Exchange in Ion-Molecule Reactions....Pages 41-66
Energetics and Dynamics of Ion-Molecule Reactions at Thermal Energies....Pages 67-86
Recent Studies of Gas-Phase Reactions of Anions with Organic Molecules....Pages 87-110
Gas-Phase Studies of the Influence of Solvation on Ion Reactivity....Pages 111-134
Exothermic Bimolecular Ion Molecule Reactions with Negative Temperature Dependence....Pages 135-157
Spectroscopic Structure and Radiationless Decay of Open-Shell Organic Cations....Pages 159-178
Gas-Phase Ion Photodissociation....Pages 179-203
Dissociation Dynamics of Energy Selected Ions Studied by One and Multiphoton Ionization....Pages 205-225
Sift-Drift Studies of Anions....Pages 227-241
Determinations of Gas-Phase Organic Ion Structures....Pages 243-265
Carbon Skeletal Rearrangements Via Pyramidal Carbocations....Pages 267-286
Low Rate Fragmentation Reactions of Gaseous Ions....Pages 287-302
Applications of the Franck-Condon Factors to Polyatomic Molecules....Pages 303-325
Ion Clusters: Summary of the Panel Discussion....Pages 327-354
Ion Thermochemistry: Summary of the Panel Discussion....Pages 355-360
Instrumentation: Summary of the Panel Discussion....Pages 361-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-374