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Two competing fragmentation processes in dimethoxybenzenes depending on their positional isomers: Elimination of CH3 and CHnO (n = 1–3) and formation of methoxycyclopentadienyl and protonated phenol ions

✍ Scribed by Yoshihiro Mori; Yoshikazu Ogawa; Hiroyuki Shinoda; Taiji Kitagawa


Book ID
102966465
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
728 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
1076-5174

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✦ Synopsis


All the metastable transitions observed above m/z 39 in the first field-free region were compared for the three positional isomers of dimethoxybenzene. The observed isomerdependent fragmentation processes, in particular the formation and decomposition of the m/z 95 (C6H,0+) ion, are discussed in terms of two competing fragmentations lelimination of CH, and CH,O (n = 1-3) and formation of methoxycyclopentadienyl and protonated phenol ions] and the relative energies of several isomers of the C6H,0+ ion calculated with molecular orbital theory.