Selected carbanions react with carbon disulfide in a modified LCQ ion trap mass spectrometer to form adducts, which when collisionally activated, decompose by processes which in some cases identify the structures of the original carbanions. For example (i) C6H5− + CS2→ C6H5CS2−→ C6H5S− + CS, occurs through a 3-membered ring ipso transition state, and (ii) the reaction between C6H5CH2− and CS2 gives an adduct which loses H2S, whereas the adduct(s) formed between o-CH3C6H5− and CS2 loses H2S and CS. Finally, it is shown that decarboxylation of C6H5CH2CH2CO2− produces the β-phenylethyl anion (PhCH2CH2−), and that this thermalized anion reacts with CS2 to form C6H5CH2CH2CS2− which when energized fragments specifically by the process C6H5CH2CH2CS2−→ C6H5CH2−CHC(S)SH → [(C6H5CH2CH
C
S) −SH] → C6H5CH2CCS− + H2S. Experimental findings of processes (ii) and (iii) were aided by deuterium labelling studies, and all reaction profiles were studied by theoretical calculations at the UCCSD(T)/6-31+G(d,p)//B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory unless indicated to the contrary.
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