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Fragmentation processes of ionized 5-fluorouracil in the gas phase and within clusters

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We have measured mass spectra for positive ions produced from neutral 5-fluorouracil by electron impact at energies from 0 to 100 eV. Fragment ion appearance energies of this (radio-)chemotherapy agent have been determined for the first time and we have identified several new fragment ions of low abundance. The main fragmentations are similar to uracil, involving HNCO loss and subsequent HCN loss, CO loss, or FCCO loss. The features adjacent to these prominent peaks in the mass spectra are attributed to tautomerization preceding the fragmentation and/or the loss of one or two additional hydrogen atoms. A few fragmentions are distinct for 5-fluorouracil compared to uracil, most notably the production of the reactive moiety CF+. Finally, multiphoton ionization mass spectra are compared for 5-fluorouracil from a laser thermal desorption source and from a supersonic expansion source. The detection of a new fragment ion at 114 u in the supersonic expansion experiments provides the first evidence for a clustering effect on the radiation response of 5-fluorouracil. By analogy with previous experiments and calculations on protonated uracil, this is assigned to NH3 loss from protonated 5-fluorouracil.

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  1. Department of Experimental Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

    Peter J. M. van der Burgt & Michael A. Brown

  2. School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK

    Jana Bockova, André Rebelo, Michal Ryszka & Sam Eden

  3. Laboratório de Colisões Atómicas e Moleculares, CEFITEC, Departamento de Física, FCT – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    André Rebelo

  4. CIMAP UMR 6252 (CEA/CNRS/ENSICAEN/Université de Caen Normandie), Boulevard Becquerel, 14070, Caen Cedex 5, France

    Jean-Christophe Poully

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “Dynamics of Systems on the Nanoscale (2018)”, edited by Ilko Bald, Ilia A. Solov’yov, Nigel J. Mason and Andrey V. Solov’yov

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van der Burgt, P.J.M., Brown, M.A., Bockova, J. et al. Fragmentation processes of ionized 5-fluorouracil in the gas phase and within clusters. Eur. Phys. J. D 73, 184 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2019-100107-7

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