Formation and identification of ionized and neutral cumulenes, RNCCCNH, by tandem mass spectrometry
作者:Robert Flammang、Sophie Laurent、Monique Flammang-Barbieux、Curt Wentrup
DOI:10.1002/oms.1210281030
日期:1993.10
AbstractUsing a combination of mass spectrometric techniques, it is shown that 5‐amino‐4‐cyanoisoxazole molecular ions (1+˙), lose isocyanic acid HNO, not fulminic acid, HCN → O. Metastable ion fragmentations (unimolecular and collision induced) and deuterium‐labelling experiments are in agreement with the formation of a cumulenic structure, HNCCCNH (3a+˙). The hitherto unreported molecules HNCCCNH are also shown to be stable when formed in the low‐pressure gas phase of the mass spectrometer by using the technique of neutralization–reionization mass spectrometry. The arguments developed for the characterization of 3a+˙ have also been extended to the methylated and phenylated analogues 3b+˙ and 3c+˙ [RNCCCNH+˙, R = CH3 or C6H5]. On flash‐vacuum pyrolysis at 700°C, 1 also loses HNCO producing the cumulene 3a, which is in turn readily tautomerized into malononitrile via wall collisions.