title: Dissociative benzyl cation transfer versus proton transfer: loss of benzene from protonated N-benzylaniline.
abstract: In collisional activation of protonated N-benzylaniline, the benzene loss from the benzyl moiety is actually not the result of dissociative proton transfer (PT). In fact, benzyl cation transfer (BCT) from the nitrogen to the anilinic ring (ortho or para position) is the key step for benzene loss. Such dissociation occurs only after the benzyl group migrating from the site with the highest benzylation nucleophilicity (nitrogen) to a different one (aromatic ring carbon), which is described as dissociative benzyl cation transfer.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
authors: Hezhi
authors: H
authors: Sun
authors: Yunfeng
authors: Y
authors: Chai
authors: Yuanjiang
authors: Y
authors: Pan