Keywords: Density functional calculations / Dehydrogenation / Mass spectrometry / MethylamineThe mechanism of the consecutive fragmentation of methylamine, CH 3 NH 2 , is studied by means of neutralization-reionization mass spectrometry (NRMS), labeling experiments, and calculations employing density functional theory. It is shown that under the conditions of NRMS the fragmentations proceed by a radical mechanism that involves four distinct X-H bond cleavages (X = C, N). In the first step, a hydrogen atom is eliminated from the methyl group; next, homolytic cleavage of an N-H bond occurs. The so-formed CH 2 NH intermediate then, in competition, releases a hydrogen atom