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Methods to Identify the NMR Resonances of the 13C-Dimethyl N-terminal Amine on Reductively Methylated Proteins
Published on: December 12, 2013
Ion-Molecule reactions in methylamine and dimethylamine and trimethylamine systems
J A Herman1, K Herman, T B McMahon
1Department of Chemistry and Guelph-Waterloo Center for Graduate Work in Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry has been used to measure the reaction rates for ions derived from methylamine with dimethylamine or trimethylamine. The use of the selective ion ejection technique greatly simplifies the elucidation of the ion-molecule reaction channels. The rate constants for proton transfer from protonated metwlamine, CH3NH 3 (+) (m/z 32), to dimethylamine and trimethylamine are 16.1 ± 1.6 × 10(-10) and 9.3 ± 0.9 × 10(-10) cm(3) molec(-1)s(-1), respectively. The rate constants for charge transfer from methylamine molecular ion, CH3NH 2 (+) (m/z 31), to dimethylamine and trimethylamine are 9.3 ± 1.8 x 10(-10) and 15.0 ± 5 × 10(-10) cm(3)molec(-1)s(-1), respectively.
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