Collision-induced dissociation mass spectra of protonated alkyl amines

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The collision-induced dissociation (CID) mass spectra of the [MH]+ ions of a variety of C4 to C6 mono-, di-, and tri-alkyl amines have been determined at 8 keV collision energy and also as a function of collision energy over the range 5–100 eV (laboratory scale). The two major primary fragmentation pathways observed following either mode of activation are (i) production of an alkyl cation by expulsion of ammonia or an alkyl amine, and (ii) formation of a smaller protonated amine by loss of an olefin. In addition, alkane elimination from [MH]+, by a variety of pathways, is a common reaction for protonated dialkyl and trialkyl amines, especially in the 8 keV spectra. However, these alkane elimination reactions are of considerably less importance in the low energy CID spectra because they have high onset energies. The differences observed in the spectra produced by the two methods of activation are discussed in terms of the distributions of internal energies deposited in [MH]+ by the collision process. Keywords: protonated amines, collision-induced fragmentation, energy-resolved mass spectrometry.

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