MICROSCALE SYNTHESIS AND IN-SITU SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME CHEMICAL WEAPONS RELATED ORGANOPHOSPHONATE COMPOUNDS

Inspection protocols for the Chemical Weapons Treaty, which went into effect on April 29, 1997 require on-site analytical procedures which i nclude a comprehensive mass spectral database of hundreds of scheduled compounds. A number of these compounds were prepared on a nanogram sc ale via a micro-scale synthetic approach using GC-IRD/MSD analytical i nstrumentation to purify and identify the resulting products. The coll ected electron impact mass spectra will be made available for use in r elevant databases.