“…Carbamate esters (Seiber, 1972;Shafik and Mongan, 1972;Khalifa and Mumma, 1972) and ureas (Miller, 1971) react with trifluoroacetic anhydride to form iV-trifluoroacetyl (TFA) derivatives for trace analysis. The derivatives are less polar, have a greater thermal stability, and are more electron capturing than the starting esters or ureas.…”