Substituent effects in the decarboxylation reactions of coordinated arylcarboxylates in dinuclear copper complexes, [(napy)Cu₂(O₂CC₆H₄X)]+†

A combination of gas-phase ion trap mass spectrometry experiments and density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been used to examine the role of substituents on the decarboxylation of 25 different coordinated aromatic carboxylates in binuclear complexes, [(napy)Cu2(O2CC6H4X)]+, where napy is