An experimental and computational investigation on the fragmentation behavior of enaminones in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1291-1298

  Guo, Cheng ^a   Wan, Jieping ^a,b   Hu, Nan ^a   Jiang, Kezhi ^a   Pan, Yuanjiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

dissociative protonation; enaminones; proton transfer; substituent effect; theoretical calculation

Indexed keywords

[CARBONYL; ABUNDANCE RATIOS; CARBON ATOMS; CARBONYL OXYGEN; COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DISSOCIATION PATHWAYS; DISSOCIATIVE PROTONATION; DOUBLE BONDS; ELECTRON-DONATING GROUP; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ENAMINONES; ESI-MS/MS; FOURIER TRANSFORM ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; FRAGMENTATION BEHAVIOR; PHENYL RINGS; POSITIVE ION MODE; PROTON TRANSFER REACTIONS; PROTONATED; PROTONATION SITE; SUBSTITUENT CONSTANTS; SUBSTITUENT EFFECT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

BENZENE; CARBONYLATION; CHEMICAL BONDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEUTERIUM; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXYGEN; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTODISSOCIATION; POSITIVE IONS; PROTON TRANSFER; PROTONATION;

ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

BENZENE; BENZOYL PEROXIDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; PROTON;

ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOURIER TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALKENES; AMINES; BENZYL COMPOUNDS; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; KETONES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROTONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 78649579650     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1812     Document Type: Article

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