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Mass Spectrometry of 2-Alkylthio-2-methylpropanoic Acids and Their Esters and Amides. Structural and Steric Effects on the McLafferty Rearrangement
Mori, Yuji,Fujiwara, Shigeru,Miyachi, Toshiko,Kitanishi, Hiroyuki,Oya, Masayuki,et al.
, p. 1505 - 1517 (2007/10/02)
The electron ionization mass spectra (MS) of S-methylated derivatives of N-(2-mercapto-2-methylpropanoyl)-L-cysteine and 2-alkylthio-2-methylpropanoic acids, as well as their esters and amides, were examined.Use of the deuterium labeling technique and accurate mass measurement supported the proposed fragmentation pathways.Extensive loss of CH2S from a molecular ion by the McLafferty rearrangementof a primary hydrogen is important in the MS of S-methyl compounds of amide derivatives.It was demonstrated that the intensity of the rearrangement ion decreases in the order of amide, ester, and acid, and in the case if amides the reaarangement is suppressed by the nonbonded interaction between methyl groups on the α carbon and the amide nitrogen.Keywords-N-(2-mercapto-2-methylpropanoyl)-L-cysteine; 2-alkylthio-2-methylpropanoic acid and methyl ester; 2-alkylthio-2-methylpropanamide; electron impact mass spectrometry; McLafferty rearrangement; steric interaction
