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Results of a Fourier transform-ion cyclotron resonance study are reported concerning the reactivity of protonated perdeuteromethane and deuteronated methane, generated under varying pressure conditions in an external chemical ionization ion source, toward ammonia. The competition between proton and deuteron transfer from both protonated perdeuteromethane and deuteronated methane to ammonia exhibits chemically distinguishable hydrogens. The chemical behavior of protonated methane appears to be compatible with the theoretically predicted stable structure with Cs symmetry, involving a three-center two-electron bond associating two hydrogens and the carbon atom. Interconversion of this structure due to exchange between one of these hydrogens and one of the three remaining hydrogens appears to be a fast process that is induced by interactions with the chemical ionization gas.
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Heck, A.J.R., de Koning, L.J. & Nibbering, N.M.M. On the structure of protonated methane. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 2, 453–458 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(91)80030-B
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