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How could their mass spectra be used to distinguish
Chapter 14, Problem 16P(choose chapter or problem)
QUESTION:
How could their mass spectra be used to distinguish between the following compounds?
Questions & Answers
QUESTION:
How could their mass spectra be used to distinguish between the following compounds?
ANSWER:
Solution 16P
We can distinguish the given carbonyl compounds based on their fragmentations and the relative intensities of their peaks in the Mass-spectrum.
(a)
The compound is as follows:
The compound on bombardment with forms a molecular ion that undergoes fragmentation and forms fragment ions that are detected by the instrument, exclusively positively charged species.
The compound shows a fragment peak at and a base peak at .