The nominal butyl ester ion in the mass spectra of long??chain n??alkyl esters: A postscript

S Meyerson, ES Kuhn, I Puskas…

Index: Meyerson, Seymour; Kuhn, Eugene S.; Puskas, Imre; Fields, Ellis K.; Leitch, Leonard C.; et. al. Organic Mass Spectrometry, 1983 , vol. 18, # 3 p. 110 - 113

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Abstract

Abstract n-Octadecyl benzoate, taken as a model for long-chain n-alkyl carboxylates generally, loses C 14 H 28 under electron impact to yield a product with the same elemental composition as the butyl benzoate molecular ion. This product retains quantitatively one hydrogen from C-6, and seems to be formed as an oxygen-protonated 4-benzoyloxybutyl radical. It reacts further to lose H 2 O, in which deuterium labeling demostrates that the ...