Mass Spectrometry Study of Acylthioureas and Acylthiocarbamates

Abstract

A variety of acylthiocarbamates and acylthioureas have been investigated under electron impact ionization (EI), chemical ionization (CI) and electrospray ionization (ESI) conditions. Sequential product-ion fragmentation (MSn) was performed to elucidate the degradation pathways for these compounds. Comparisons are made between positive and negative even-electron ions from ESI and CI and the odd-electron ions obtained under EI conditions. The data collected in this paper provide information on the strong differences found in the fragmentation process of these compounds.