ee Af)e ie \ fu Bb) Mass Spectrometry ELSEVIER International Journal of Mass Spectrometry www.elsevier.com/locate/ijms Volume 267 Issues 1-3 1 November 2007 Contents Sharon G. Lias Honour Issue Guest Editors: John E. Bartmess and Karl K. Irikura Foreword J.E. Bartmess and K.K. [rikura (USA) Sharon G. Lias, 1935-2004 PUREE RES rret a err are tein th Ae its ne MN ae me a Beet re a hea l lia ty Lleyton a a Scientific Publications of Sharon G. Lias Cesium cation affinities and basicities J.-F. Gal, P.-C. Maria, L. Massi, C. Mayeux, P. Burk and J. Tammiku-Taul (Estonia, France) Gaseous-versus solution-phase recognition of some aromatic amino esters by 2, 8, 14, 20-tetrakis (L-valinamido) [4jresorcinarene B. Botta, G.D. Monache, C. Fraschetti, L. Nevola, D. Subissati and M. Speranza (Italy) Cytosine neutral molecules and cation-radicals in the gas-phase. Structures, energetics, ion chemistry, and neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry J.K. Wolken, C. Yao, F. Tureéek, M.J. Polce and C. Wesdemiotis (USA) Protonation of heterocyclic aromatic molecules: IR signature of the protonation site of furan and pyrrole U.J. Lorenz, J. Lemaire, P. Maitre, M.-E. Crestoni, S. Fornarini and O. Dopfer (France, Germany, Italy) Gas-phase acidities of the 20 protein amino acids C.M. Jones, M. Bernier, E. Carson, K.E. Colyer, R. Metz, A. Pawlow, E.D. Wischow, I. Webb, E.J. Andriole and J.C. Poutsma (USA) Gas phase protonation of a, B and y-dicarbonyls: Thermochemistry and structures A. Akrour, Z. Chikh, F. Djazi, M. Elbannay, F. Berruyer and G. Bouchoux (Algérie, France) Transfer of F* versus fluoronium metathesis. Competing reactivities of the gaseous fluoroformy! cation M.J. McEwan, P.F. Wilson, G.J. Francis and T.H. Morton (New Zealand, USA) One-photon mass-analyzed threshold ionization spectroscopy (MATT) of cis-dichloroethylene (cis-C,H,Cl,): Cation structure determination via Franck—Condon fit Y.J. Bae and M.S. Kim (South Korea) (Contents continued on backmatter page 1) Abstracted/Contents in: Chem. Abstr.; Curr. Contents, Phys. Chem. Earth Sci.; Embase/Excerpta Medica; INSPEC; Mass Spectrom. Bull.; PASCAL/CNRS. Also covered in the abstract and citation database SCOPUS®. Full text available on ScienceDirect“ 387-3806 (2 11101) 2€ se (Contents continued from outside back cover) Investigation of the gas-phase hydrogen/deuterium exchange behavior of aromatic dicarboxylic acids in a quadrupole ion trap J.E. Chipuk and J.S. Brodbelt (USA) Determination of trace elements in pigeon and raven feathers by ICPMS A. Adout, D. Hawlena, R. Maman, O. Paz-Tal and Z. Karpas (Israel) Microwave plasma ion sources for selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry: Optimizing their performance and detection limits for trace gas analysis P. Spanél, K. Dryahina and D. Smith (Czech Republic, UK) Cyano substituent effects on enol and enethiol acidity and basicity: The protonation and deprotonation of 3-hydroxy-2-propenenitrile and its thio analogue A. Luna, O. M6, M. Yajfiez, J.-C. Guillemin, J.-F. Gal and P.-C. Maria (France, Spain) Substituent effects on the second ionization energies of hydroxy- and methoxy benzenes J. Roithova and D. Schréder (Czech Republic) Doubly protonated 1,3,5-trimethylenebenzene cA”) and homologous cm and C,H,”* dications: Structures and unimolecular fragmentation patterns P. Milko, J. Roithova, D. Schréder and H. Schwarz (Czech Republic, Germany) Composite C- and H-scrambling and fragmentation of long-lived protonated 6-methylfulvene and 6,6-dimethyl- fulvene—alternative entry to the gas-phase chemistry of gaseous toluenium (C,H,*) and xylenium (C,H, ,* ) ions M. Mormann, B. Decker and D. Kuck (Germany) Modeling ionic unimolecular dissociations from a temperature controlled TPEPICO study on 1-C,H,I ions J.P. Kercher, W. Stevens, Z. Gengeliczki and T. Baer (Hungary, USA) A critical evaluation of the experimental and theoretical determination of lithium cation affinities M.T. Rodgers and P.B. Armentrout (USA) Generation of di-lithiated peptide ions from multiply protonated peptides via ion/ion reactions B.D.M. Hodges, X. Liang and S.A. McLuckey (USA) A new technique for studying ion-ion recombination in a flowing afterglow Langmuir probe apparatus: Ar* recombining with Cl,~, CC1,O , Br, , SF," and SF, T.M. Miller, J.F. Friedman and A.A. Viggiano (USA) Improvements in quantitative chiral determinations using the mass spectrometric kinetic method B.L. Young and R.G. Cooks (USA) Experimental and theoretical studies of the binding interaction between copper(I) cation and the carbonyl group. Substituent effect on the stability of (acetophenone),Cu* complex in the gas phase S. Than, H. Maeda, M. Irie, K. Kikukawa and M. Mishima (Japan) Effusion of positive and negative ions from a Knudsen cell with weak electric field and ionic conductivity of the sample S.V. Abramov, A.Ya. Borshchevsky, N.S. Chilingarov and L.N. Sidorov (Russia) Experimental and theoretical proton affinities of methionine, methionine sulfoxide and their N- and C-terminal derivatives H. Lioe, R.A.J. O’ Hair, S. Gronert, A. Austin and G.E. Reid (Australia, USA) Il Cation-z interactions with a m-excessive nitrogen heterocycle: Structures and absolute binding energies of alkali metal cation—pyrrole complexes C. Ruan, Z. Yang and M.T. Rodgers (USA) A systematic study of ion and cluster ion formation in continuous supersonic planar plasma H. Verbraak, D. Verdes and H. Linnartz (Switzerland, The Netherlands) An investigation of the dissociation of complexes of triethylene tetramine with first-row transition-metal dications by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry: Remote C-C bond activation J. Anichina and D.K. Bohme (Canada) Assessing thermochemical data J.L. Holmes, C. Aubry and X. Wang (Canada, PR China) The infrared spectroscopy of the products of ion—molecule reactions trapped in the solid rare gases M.E. Jacox (USA) Dissociation of chloride from ortho-, meta- and para-chloromethylphenoxides: The enthalpy of formation of meta- quinomethane S.A. Chacko and P.G. Wenthold (USA) Thermochemical stabilities of the gas-phase cluster ions of halide ions with rare gas atoms A. Wada, A. Kikkawa, T. Sugiyama and K. Hiraoka (Japan) A redetermination of the heats of formation of chloro- and dichlorocarbene and the deprotonation of methyl cation, a spin forbidden process? Z. Tian and S.R. Kass (USA) Consecutive neutral losses of H,O and C,H,O from N-Terminal Thr-Thr and Thr-Ser in collision-induced dissociation of protonated peptides. Position dependent water loss from single Thr or Ser P. Neta, Q.-L. Pu, X. Yang and S.E. Stein (USA) The intrinsic (gas-phase) acidities of bridgehead alcohols. An experimental (FT-ICR) and computational study R. Herrero, J.Z. Davalos, J.-L.M. Abboud, I. Alkorta, I. Koppel, I.A. Koppel, T. Sonoda and M. Mishima (Estonia, Japan, Spain) The proton-bound complex Cl~---H-CCl,: A high-level theoretical study P. Botschwina, R. Oswald and V. Dyczmons (Germany) Gas-phase lithium cation basicity of histamine and its agonist 2-(§-aminoethyl)-pyridine. Experimental (FT-ICR- MS) and theoretical studies (DFT) of chelation effect M. Hallmann, E.D. Raczyriska, J.-F. Gal and P.-C. Maria (France, Poland) Thermochemical considerations and bond enthalpy ratios involving triatomic 16-valence electron neutrals and ions and some isoelectronically related pentaatomics C.A. Deakyne, L.K. Norton, A.M. Abele, A.K. Ludden and J.F. Liebman (USA) Strong and very strong hydrogen bonding in fluoro-amine—fluoride systems R.J. Nieckarz, N. Oldridge and T.B. McMahon (Canada) A thermal extrapolation method for the effective temperatures and internal energies of activated ions M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and A. Somogyi (New Zealand, USA) The gas-phase thermochemistry of PC1,*: A test of lattice energy calculations C. Hao, S.M. Sharrett and L.S. Sunderlin (USA)