Amine oxides mass spectrometry

Analytical methods iaclude thin-layer chromatography (69), gas chromatography (70), and specific methods for determining amine oxides ia detergeats (71) and foods (72). Nuclear magnetic resonance (73—75) and mass spectrometry (76) have also been used. A frequentiy used procedure for iadustrial amine oxides (77) iavolves titratioa with hydrochloric acid before and after conversion of the amine to the quaternary ammonium salt by reaction with methyl iodide. A simple, rapid quaHty control procedure has been developed for the deterrniaation of amine oxide and unreacted tertiary amine (78). 

In the present study the surface chemistry of birnessite and of birnessite following the interaction with aqueous solutions of cobalt(II) and cobalt(III) amine complexes as a function of pH has been investigated using two surface sensitive spectroscopic techniques. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). The significant contribution that such an investigation can provide rests in the information obtained regarding the chemical nature of the neat metal oxide and of the metal oxide/metal ion adsorbate surfaces, within about the top 50 of the material surface. The chemical... 

As shown by mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy, these amine derivatives of Cgfl, after work up, are dehydrogenated adducts [81]. After nucleophilic addition, the H atoms brought in by the diamines were oxidatively eliminated. The final adduct formation of the secondary diamines proceeds exclusively at [6,6] bonds. Besides the monoadduct, most of the regioisomeric bisadducts of piperazine or N,N -dimefhylethylenediamine and Cjq could be separated by column chromatography. The structure of the monoadduct and some of these bis-adducts were proven by X-ray crystal-structure analysis [90]. 

Several methods are available in the literature for the measurement of aliphatic amines in biological samples [28]. Problems with specificity and separation and cumbersome derivatisation and/or extraction procedures have limited the use of these techniques on a larger scale in clinical practice. The lack of a simple analytical method may have led to an underestimation of the incidence of the fish odour syndrome. For diagnosing the syndrome, an analytical technique should be used that is able to simultaneously and quantitatively measure TMA and its N-oxide in the complex matrix of human urine. Two such methods are currently available for this purpose proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and head-space gas analysis with gas chromatography or direct mass spectrometry (see below). 

Electron Spin Resonance and Field Desorption - Mass Spectrometry Oxidation Studies of Partially Hindered Amines 3,3-Dialkyldecahydroquinoxalin-2-ones." by R. W. Layer, J. T. Lai, R. P. Lattimer and J. C. Westfahl, this symposium. 

Electron Spin Resonance and Field Desorption-Mass Spectrometry Oxidation Studies of Partially Hindered Amines... 

Figure 6.28. Temperature-programmed mass spectrometry of the decomposition of Pt +(NHs)4 ion exchanged in zeolite nZEM-Sl " . The corresponding reaction steps are indicated. Three peaks can be distinguished in the TPD spectrum. Oxygen is consumed in only two of the N2 formation peaks. The mechanism that explains the occurrence of these three peaks is consistent with proposals made earlier on the homogeneous oxidation of Ru-amine complexes in basic solutionl and the reaction of NO with Ru or Os complexes ].

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