Electron impact studies. XCIII. The reactions of negative ions from 3- and 4-nitrophthalic anhydrides

Possible structures for some rearrangement ions in the negative ion mass spectra of 3- and 4-nitro- phthalic anhydride are suggested from an examination of the + E spectra obtained by the conversion of the negative ions to positive ions by charge-stripping reactions. The reactivities of the non-decomposing negative ions have been investigated by observation of their ion-molecule reactions with the neutral anhydride in the cell of an ion cyclotron resonance spectrometer.