Volume 72, Number 1, 37-42, DOI: 10.1007/s10812-005-0028-2

Mechanism of mass spectral fragmentation of dinuclear copper(ii) complexes with heterocyclic dithiocarbamates and octaazamacrocyclic ligand

S. P. Sovilj, K. Babić-Samardžija and N. Avramovic

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Abstract

The mass spectral fragmentation of five dinuclear Cu(II) complexes of the general formula [Cu2(Rdtc)tpmc] (ClO4)3, where tpmc and Rdtc refer to N, Nprime, NPrime, Ntprime-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane and piperidine- (Pipdtc), 4-morpholine- (Morphdtc), 4-thiomorpholine- (Timdtc), piperazine- (Pzdtc), or N-methylpiperazine- (N-Mepzdtc) dithiocarbamates, respectively, has been investigated. The results were shown to be of mechanistic significance, clarifying the major products of their fragmentation. A possible mechanism entails a multi-step decomposition process that can be separated into individual steps depending on their molecular structures. Every step is determined to some extent by the nature of the intermediates.

Keywords  mass spectra - copper(II) - octaazamacrocycle - dithiocarbamates

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Published in Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 38–42, January–February, 2005.

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