Gupta et al
Der Chemica Sinica, 2017, 8(1):218-222
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hydrogen transfer to nitrogen leading to less abundant peak at m/z 84 corresponding to [HNR
2
]
+
ion. It can be considered
as a result of methylene hydrogen transfer to carboxamide nitrogen, subsequent homolytic cleavage with charge
retention on nitrogen and expulsion of a CO molecule. These fragment ions were observed in all the mass spectra and are
characteristic of the piperidine nucleus. On the other hand, rest of the ions is characteristics of the substituents present
on the phenyl ring of the acetic acid moiety. In all the cases, the molecular ion peak was quite strong and prominent. A
peak, although very weak, at M-1 was also observed in mass spectra of all the molecules. However, the most abundant
ion resulting from the cleavage of bond alpha to the CO group (CO-N bond) leads to the fragment ion at m/z 118 in case
of unsubstituted phenyl acetic acid while in substituted amides, the corresponding ion was observed at its respective
position. On the other hand, cleavage of another α-CO bond leads to the formation of ion at m/s 91 and corresponding
ions in the mass spectra of other substituted amides. Loss of substituent from the phenyl ring of the amides was also
observed with some of the amides but not with all the amides. For example, a very faint peak at M-1 was observed
in the mass spectra of 2- and 3-methyl and methoxy substituted amides and that of 4-fluoro amide only (
Scheme 1).
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