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A study was carried out on the fragmentation of 12 protonated O,O-dimethyl O-aryl phosphorothionates by tandem quadrupole mass spectrometry. Some of the studied compounds are used in agriculture as pesticides. Energy-resolved and pressure-resolved experiments were performed on the [M + H]+ ions to investigate the dissociation behavior of the ions with various amounts of internal energy. On collisionally activated dissociation, the [M + H]+ ions decompose to yield the [M + H − CH3OH]+, (CH3O)2PS+ (m/z 125), and (CH3O)2PO+ (m/z 109) ions as major fragments. The ions [M + H − CH3OH]+ and (CH3O)2PS+ probably arise from the [M + H]+ ions of the O,O-dimethyl O-aryl phosphorothionates with the proton on the sulfur or on the oxygen of the phenoxy group. The origin of the hydroxy proton of the methanol fragment was in many cases, surprisingly, the phenyl group and not the reagent gas. This was confirmed by using deuterated isobutane, C4D10, as reagent gas in Cl. The fragment ions (CH3O)2PO+ and [ZPhS]+ are the results of thiono-thiolo rearrangement reaction. The precursor ion for the ion (CH3O)2PO+ arises from most compounds upon chemical ionization, whereas the precursor ion for the ion [ZPhS]+ arises only from a few compounds upon chemical ionization. The observed fragments imply that several sites carry the extra proton and that these sites get the proton usually upon ionization. The stability order and some characteristics of three protomers of O,O-dimethyl O-phenyl phosphorothionate were investigated by ab initio calculations at the RHF/3-21G* level of theory.
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Kuivalainen, T., Kostiainen, R., Björk, H. et al. Fragmentation of protonated O,O-dimethyl O-aryl phosphorothionates in tandem mass spectral analysis. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 6, 488–497 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(95)00188-J
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