A study of fragmentation of protonated amides of some acylated amino acids by tandem mass spectrometry: observation of an unusual nitrilium ion

ER Talaty, SM Young, RP Dain…

Index: Talaty, Erach R.; Young, Sarah M.; Dain, Ryan P.; Van Stipdonk, Michael J. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2011 , vol. 25, # 9 p. 1119 - 1129

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Abstract

Abstract A tandem mass spectrometric study of a series of secondary amides of acetylglycine and hippuric acid utilizing electrospray ionization (ESI) was conducted. Among the fragment ions observed was an unusual one, which we have determined to be a nitrilium ion having the structure inline image