An unprecedented rearrangement in collision??induced mass spectrometric fragmentation of protonated benzylamines

J Bialecki, J Ruzicka…

Index: Bialecki, Jason; Ruzicka, Josef; Attygalle, Athula B. Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2006 , vol. 41, # 9 p. 1195 - 1204

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Abstract

Abstract The collision-induced dissociation (CID) mass spectra of several protonated benzylamines are described and mechanistically rationalized. Under collision-induced decomposition conditions, protonated dibenzylamine, for example, loses ammonia, thereby forming an ion of m/z 181. Deuterium labeling experiments confirmed that the additional proton transferred to the nitrogen atom during this loss of ammonia comes from the ortho ...