Duncombe Bridgette J, Rydén Jens O S, Puskar Ljilijana, Cox Hazel, Stace Anthony J
Department of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.
J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2008 Apr;19(4):520-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jasms.2007.12.004. Epub 2007 Dec 27.
The kinetic shift that exists between two competing unimolecular fragmentation processes has been used to establish whether or not gas-phase Mn(2+) exhibits preferential solvation when forming mixed clusters with water and methanol. Supported by molecular orbital calculations, these first results for a metal dication demonstrate that Mn(2+) prefers to be solvated by methanol in the primary solvation shell.
