. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 29.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2002 May 8;124(18):5000–5009. doi: 10.1021/ja017713h

Table 1.

MALDI MS Evidence for the Formation of Acyclic Oxidized and Unoxidized Products from the Thermolysis of 2b

entry	structure	TLC R_f	(m/z) calcd	(m/z) obsd
1	4, R = Me, m = 1, n = 0	0.29	382.41	381.89
2	4, R = Me, m = 3, n = 2	0.44	926.36	926.28
3	6a	0.44	226.23	225.61
4	5, R = Me, m + n = 4	0.26	906.01	906.33
5	5, R = Me, m + n = 3	0.84	770.79	770.82
6	5, R = Me, n = 1, m = 0	0.79	362.51	361.38