“…This is in keeping with the thought that a two-step process involving multiple bond fissions to the same carbon (for example, loss of water followed by loss of HCO, or vice versa) would not dominate these spectra to the extent that it totally suppresses other well-known facile reactions (loss of acetic acid, loss of water, loss of butadiene). While the earlier workers8,10 noted that the loss of 47 mass units was characteristic of the 7,17-dione system, they did not refer to the evidence from the metastable ions which they recorded nor did they note the (5) Joaka, J.; Fajkos, J.; Sorm, F. Collect. Czech Chem.…”