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title = "Ca2+ Reactivity in the Gas Phase. Bonding, Catalytic Effects and Coulomb Explosions",
abstract = "In this chapter we present an overview of what is known today about the reactivity of Ca2+ with different species, both from the theoretical and the experimental points of view. We have paid particular attention to the bonding characteristics of Ca2+ complexes and to the electron density re-distribution undergone by the neutral interacting with this doubly charged metal, due to the quite intense electric field around it, which results sometimes in, dramatic polarization effects. Another important question is related with the stability of Ca2+ complexes in the gas phase, in clear contrast with the instability of analogous complexes involving other metal dications, such as Cu2+ or Pb2+, which only produce singly charged species when interacting with neutral bases. The last part of this chapter will be devoted to review the different combined experimental and theoretical studies of several reactions involving Ca2+. This survey will include a comparison of the reactivity exhibited by Ca2+ with respect to the reactivity shown by other divalent metal ions, as well as some preliminary results of the reaction of Ca2+ with uracil. Particular attention will be also paid to the catalytic effect of Ca2+ in the tautomeric process of these kinds of biochemical compounds.",
keywords = "Alkaline-earth dications, Bonding, Catalytic effects, Coulomb explosions, Mass spectrometry, Reactivity, Theoretical calculations",
author = "In{\'e}s Corral and Cristina Trujillo and Salpin, {Jean Yves} and Manuel Y{\'a}{\~n}ez",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Netherlands 2010.",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1007/978-90-481-3034-4_1",
language = "English",
series = "Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics",
publisher = "Springer Berlin",
pages = "1--33",
editor = "{Piotr Paneth} and {Agnieszka Dybala-Defratyka}",
booktitle = "Kinetics and Dynamics",
address = "Germany",
}