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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2014 Mar 25;25(7):1167–1176. doi: 10.1007/s13361-014-0848-5

Table 1.

Gas-phase proton affinities (PA), acidity and bond dissociation energy (BDE) of alkylated and oxidized thymine bases

Base PA (kcal/mol) Acidity (kcal/mol) BDE (kcal/mol)
T 208.19 332.22 133.92
O2-MeT 233.01 611.32 410.18
O2-EtT 234.54 609.18 407.95
O2-iPrT 235.47 607.52 406.19
O2-iBuT 235.28 608.08 406.77
O4-EtT 227.04 615.08 416.14
N3-EtT 213.33 617.01 416.41
hmU 205.99 332.81 134.93
fmU 213.61 315.73 118.54
caU 216.23 318.45 119.02