Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9781118133576
Author: T. W. Graham Solomons, Craig Fryhle
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 9, Problem 36P
Ethyl bromide and methoxybenzene (shown below) have the same nominal molecular weights, displaying a significant peak at m/z 108. Regarding their molecular ions, what other features would allow the two compounds to be distinguished on the basis of their mass spectra?
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