I. Mazeika et al., THE FAST-ATOM-BOMBARDMENT MASS-SPECTRA OF FURYL AND THIENYL SILANES AND GERMANES IN COMPARISON WITH THEIR ELECTRON-IMPACT MASS-SPECTRA, Organic mass spectrometry, 28(11), 1993, pp. 1309-1312
The interaction of the pi electron system of furyl and thienyl substit
uents with the silicon (or germanium) atom is less significant in frag
mentation under fast atom bombardment than under electron impact. Unde
r fast atom bombardment the primary fragmentation of the title compoun
ds is determined by steric influence of the heteroaromatic substituent
s.