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How could their mass spectra be used to distinguish

Chapter 14, Problem 16P

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How could their mass spectra be used to distinguish between the following compounds?

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How could their mass spectra be used to distinguish between the following compounds?

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Solution 16P

We can distinguish the given carbonyl compounds based on their fragmentations and the relative intensities of their peaks in the Mass-spectrum.

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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 .

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