Ag. Martinez et al., FRAGMENTATION OF VINYL TRIFLATES BY ELECTRON-IMPACT - MECHANISM OF ANUNUSUAL DOUBLE HYDROGEN-ATOM TRANSFER-REACTION, Rapid communications in mass spectrometry, 8(5), 1994, pp. 427-431
The main fragmentation pathway of vinyl triflates in mass spectra invo
lves the loss of CF3SO2., followed by the loss of olefin and/or CO. Th
e loss of TfOH takes place with fragmentation of a vinylic C-H bond. T
fOH-2+ ions are formed via regiospecific double hydrogen transfer from
five- and six-membered cyclic triflates.