Vi. Kadentsev et al., TETRAMETHYLSILANE AS REAGENT GAS - MASS-SPECTRA OF NITROCARBOXYLIC ACID-ESTERS AND NITROALCOHOLS, Russian chemical bulletin, 47(6), 1998, pp. 1225-1228
Nitrocarboxylic acid esters and nitroalcohols react with trimethylsily
l cation in the gas phase under conditions of chemical ionization to f
orm stable [M+SiMe3](+) ions. The pathways of their fragmentation were
established and characteristic distinctions in the mass spectra cause
d by mutual arrangement of functional groups were found.