Nature Communications (May 2018)

Observation of different reactivities of para and ortho-water towards trapped diazenylium ions

  • Ardita Kilaj,
  • Hong Gao,
  • Daniel Rösch,
  • Uxia Rivero,
  • Jochen Küpper,
  • Stefan Willitsch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04483-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Water molecules exist as two distinct nuclear-spin isomers denoted ortho and para. Here, the authors separate these two isomers in the gas phase to show that they exhibit different reactivities in a prototypical proton-transfer reaction.