HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA, cilt.92, sa.1, ss.151-164, 2009 (SCI-Expanded)
An extensive density-functional theory (DFT) study has been conducted to shed light on the mechanisms of the recently reported gas-phase ion-molecule reactions of mass-selected [Ni(H)(OH)](-) with O-2 (M. Schlangen, H. Schwarz, Helv. Chim. Acta 2008, 91, 379). Except for the liberation of OH from the encounter complex, all of the other highly atom-specific processes can be explained in a consistent manner.