
%0 Journal Article
%A Barnes, CS 
%A Occolowitz, JL 
%T The Mass Spectra of Phenyl Methyl Ethers
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1963/04/01
%V 16
%N 2
%P 219-224
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9630219
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9630219 
%X Fragmentation of a phenyl methyl ether under electron impact normally occurs by fission of either C-O bond to give ions due to loss from the parent of a methyl radical or, with rearrangement of one hydrogen, a formaldehyde molecule. In the latter case a hydrogen atom may be subsequently lost if a stable tropylium ion may thereby result. If there are present ortho- or para-substituents which are capable of forming a quinonoid structure involving the ether oxygen after removal of a methyl radical, then loss of formaldehyde does not occur. 
