title: Gas-phase synthesis of the rare-gas carbene cation ArCH2+ using doubly ionised bromomethane as a superelectrophilic reagent.
abstract: The bimolecular reaction of mass-selected CH3Br2+/CH2BrH2+ dications with argon leads to the rare-gas carbene cation ArCH2+, which represents an example of a new kind of organo rare-gas compound.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy. ascenzi@science.unitn.it
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ascenzi
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tosi
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Roithová
authors.forename: Detlef
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schröder