Article: Studies from Pusan National University yield new information about physical chemistry.

According to recent research from South Korea, "Ti+ is known to react with acetone (CH3COCH3) to produce TiO+ and CH2CHCH3 as products, but the detailed reaction mechanism and the most favorable reaction pathway have not yet been elucidated. Here, we investigate the doublet and quartet potential-energy surfaces associated with the gas-phase reaction between Ti+ and acetone for three plausible pathways, (i) direct metal-ion insertion into the C=O bond, (ii) direct H shift, and (iii) metal-mediated H migration, by using the density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio methods."

"The molecular structures of intermediates and transition states involved in these ...

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