Investigation of the formation of MH+ and other ions in the mass spectrum of methyl decanoate using specifically deuterated decanoates
✍ Scribed by A.P. Tulloch; L.R. Hogge
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 523 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-3084
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✦ Synopsis
Intensities of [M + 1 ] ÷ ions in mass spectra of methyl esters of C s C14 acids exceeded theoretical values, deviation was greatest for the shortest chain esters and for methyl decanoate was four times the calculated intensity. Similar effects were also observed in spectra of decanoates of C:-C 6 alcohols. The abnormal results were due to the presence of MH + ions and mode of formation of this ion was investigated using all the methyl gem dideuterated decanoates, methyl[10-2H3] -and [3,5,6-2H6]decanoates and [2H3]methyl decanoate. A hydrogen radical migrates from one of the carbons in the chain to the ionized carbonyl oxygen and the resultant ion, on collision with a molecule, transfers the hydrogen, as a proton, giving MH ÷. The transferred hydrogen was derived from those same carbons that provide hydrogen in the first stages of fragmentation to the mass spectrum of methyl decanoate. Thus 37% came from C-4, 15% from C-5,9% from C-6 and lesser percentages from the other carbons. The results do not exclude possible formation of MH + by hydrogen transfer from ions m/z 74 and 87. Modes of formation of ions m/z 103, 117 and 131 were also studied using the deuterated decanoates. They were formed by a mechanism similar to that involved in production of ions m/z 87 and 143 but less specifically. Hydrogen transfer from C-3, C-4 or C-5 was followed by cleavage of the bond between the carbons c~-and 13-to that carbon. Some initial migration from carbons 5, 6 and 7 also occurred.