The thermal fragmentation of salicylaldehyde was studied from two aspects. Firstly, the temperature dependence of the intensity of the thermolytic fragment molecular ions was observed at 11 eV in the effluent from a helium flow thermal reactor attached through a helium separator to the ion source of a mass spectrometer. Secondly, the products of the thermolysis on a semi-preparative scale under trapping conditions were determined by coupled gas chromatographic – mass spectrometric analysis.The title compound is the major primary thermal fragment in this study and was trapped with methanol as carboxymethylcyclopentadiene.
Decreasing turbulent helium flow in hard disk drive
