Y. Shida et al., MACROLIDE ANTIBIOTIC-STRUCTURE DETERMINATION BY FAST-ATOM-BOMBARDMENTTANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY, Tetrahedron, 49(41), 1993, pp. 9221-9234
The combined techniques of fast atom bombardment and tandem mass spect
rometry have been applied to the structural determination of macrolide
antibiotics. Major fragmentation processes in the protonated molecule
involve cleavage at the glycosidic linkages while more extensive ring
fragmentation is also noted in the spectra of the sodiated molecules.