Mass-spectrometric study of isomeric 5-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazoles and 5-mercapto-1,2,3-triazoles

The behavior of the isomeric 5-amino-1,2,3-thiadiazoles and 5-mercapto-1,2,3-triazoles under electron impact was studied. It was shown that mass spectrometry can serve as a rapid and reliable method for the identification of these compounds. Key factors in the assignment of a compound to one or the other class are the peaks of the [M-N₂]⁺ ions, which are more intense in the case of the thiadiazoles, and the ions determined by the decomposition of the prototropic forms of the triazoles. The compositions of the ions were determined by the high-resolution mass spectra.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 681–689, May, 1987.