Critical Size for Intracluster Proton Transfer from Water to an Anion

摘要

Proton transfer (PT) is a fundamental process in solution chemistry and in biology and has been the subject of numerous studies. In the past several decades, studies of proton transfer have been pursued in the gas phase to understand the nature of acidity in small microscopic systems and nanometric confined geometries. Kebarle and co-workers have pioneered these studies using high-pressure mass spectrometry (HPMS).