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Continuous efforts are made to study homogeneous chemical
reactions in liquid or gaseous phase and heterogeneous reactions at gas/solid or
gas/liquid interphase that are important for biological activity, chemical
production and environmental research. The main aim is to find to what extent a
reaction can be guided by modifying reaction conditions and consequently
detailed mechanistic and kinetics studies are carried-out for: (i) gas-phase
reactions of metal ions with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, (ii) protonation
and proton affinity of nitrogen oxides, their anions and radicals,
(iii) radical flavonoids and their
antioxidant activity and (iv) the mass spectra of a large number of natural
polymers and their subunits.
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