General trends in dissociations of medium-sized hydrocarbon dications

Abstract

This study aims towards a rationalization and generalization of the fragmentation patterns of medium-sized hydrocarbon dications by tandem mass spectrometry.

Keywords

• Aromatic hydrocarbon
• DFT calculation
• Dication
• Mass spectrometry
• initio g3-type/statistical theory
• polycyclic aromatic-hydrocarbons
• doubly charged ions
• gas-phase
• unimolecular fragmentation
• molecular dications
• protonated benzene
• combustion flames
• mass-spectrometry
• chemistry