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Baby steps: The mechanism of proton migration in an ionized acetone–water cluster was studied by IR spectroscopy. After the ionization, water abstracts a proton from the methyl group of the acetone moiety and transfers it to the carbonyl group (see picture).
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Matsuda et al. (2010) studied this question.
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