Experimental Evidence for Stable Ethane Dication in the Gas Phase

D. Stahl; F. Maquin

doi:10.2533/chimia.1983.87

Experimental Evidence for Stable Ethane Dication in the Gas Phase

Authors

D. Stahl Department of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
F. Maquin Department of Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.1983.87

Abstract

The first experimental proof of the existence of stable ethane dication is reported. This C₂H₆²⁺ species was generated by charge-stripping reaction in a mass spectrometer.