Mass spectra of 1H-2,3-dihydro-1,4-benzodiazepine-2-thiones

The mass-spectrometric fragmentation of 1H-2,3-dihydro-1,4-benzodiazepine-2-thiones differs substantially from the fragmentation of the corresponding oxo derivatives with respect to the presence of [M - HCN]⁺ and [M - SH]⁺ ions. This is due to the tautomeric transformation of the molecular ions of the thiones to enethiol and eniminothiol tautomeric forms. The approximate percentages of each of the tautomeric forms were estimated.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1412–1417, October, 1976.