H. Audier, G. Bouchoux, Y. Hoppilliard
Aug 1, 1982
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Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Abstract
It is demonstrated by means of metastable ions characteristics, collisional activation, deuterium labelling and appearance energy measurements that ionized ethyl isobutyl ether and ethyl n-butyl ether isomerize prior to decomposition. The lower critical energy fragmentation gives [CH3CH2OCHCH3]+ ions. A mechanism of isomerization is proposed in which 1,4 hydrogen migration on the oxygen atom is coupled with rearrangement of the butyl chain.