Collisionally induced dissociation mass spectrometric studies of perfluorinated 1H-heptane,tert-butanol, 2-butyltetrahydrofuran and isopropyl bromobutyl ether

High-energy collision-activated dissociation in connection with mass-analyzed ion kinetic energy spectrometry (CAD/MIKES) was employed to probe the structures of some ions generated by methane chemical ionization (CI) and negative ion chemical ionization (NICI) of the title compounds. CAD/MIKES results show that the M ? H]^? ion of lH-perfluorobeptane and the O(CF₂)₄Br]^? ion of perfluoroisopropylbromobutyl ether are stable. The methane CI of these fluorocarbons also showed that the expulsion of HF molecules appears to be a major driving force for further fragmentations.