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    This document provides a mass spectrometry worksheet with questions about identifying compounds from their mass spectra. It includes mass spectra for several compounds and asks students to identify the fragments and draw structural formulas. It also asks students to identify unknown compounds from their mass spectra and composition.

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    This document provides a mass spectrometry worksheet with questions about identifying compounds from their mass spectra. It includes mass spectra for several compounds and asks students to identify the fragments and draw structural formulas. It also asks students to identify unknown compounds from their mass spectra and composition.

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    This document provides a mass spectrometry worksheet with questions about identifying compounds from their mass spectra. It includes mass spectra for several compounds and asks students to identify the fragments and draw structural formulas. It also asks students to identify unknown compounds from their mass spectra and composition.

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    Worksheet Mass Spectrometry

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    Minh Thy Nguyen Le
    This document provides a mass spectrometry worksheet with questions about identifying compounds from their mass spectra. It includes mass spectra for several compounds and asks students to identify the fragments and draw structural formulas. It also asks students to identify unknown compounds from their mass spectra and composition.

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    Mass spectrometry worksheet

    1. For each of the following compounds complete the table to identify the ion responsible
    for each mass.
    Spectra courtesy of NIST Chemistry WebBook: https://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/
    Note: you must give structural formulae for all particles

    a. Propan-1-ol (CH3CH2CH2OH)

    Give the displayed formula of propan-1-ol

    mass spectrum

    31

    29
    59
    43 60

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    60

    59

    43

    31

    29

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    b. Propanal (CH3CH2CHO)

    Displayed formula
    H H O
    H C C C
    H H H

    mass spectrum

    58
    29

    57

    M+1 peak

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    58

    57

    29

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    c. Methyl benzoate (C6H5COOCH3)

    Structural formula
    O
    C
    O CH3

    mass spectrum

    105

    77

    136

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    136

    105

    77

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    d. Ethyl ethanoate (CH3COOCH2CH3)

    Structural formula
    H O H H
    H C C O C C H
    H H H
    mass spectrum

    43

    29
    15 73 88

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    88

    73

    43

    29

    15

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    2. For each of the following use the mass spectrum to identify the compound. Two
    possible structures are given in each case.
    Give reasons for your answer.
    Then complete the table using structural formulae.

    a. Compound X has one of the following structures


    O H H H O H
    or methyl ethanoate
    H C O C C H H C C O C H
    ethyl methanoate H H H H

    43
    Mass spectrum of compound X

    74

    59
    15

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    74

    59

    43

    15

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    b. Compound Y has one of the following structures

    H H H H H H H H m/z - 57 and m/z = 29


    or
    H C C C C C H H C C C C C H
    H O H H H H H O H H
    pentanone

    43
    Mass spectrum of compound Y

    86

    71

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    86

    71

    43

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    3. Use the information given to identify the following compound.
    Show all your working and reasoning.
    Then complete the table using structural formulae.

    % composition by mass
    C=48.6%. H = 8.1%, O = 43.2%

    Infrared absorptions
    Very broad absorption at 2500-3300 cm-1 due to O-H of carboxylic acid
    Sharp absorption at 1630-1820 cm-1 due to C=O

    74
    45
    29

    73

    57

    Mass of peak Mass lost Atom/group lost Identity of fragment

    74

    73

    57

    45

    29

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