Micro-scale Synthesis and In-Situ Spectroscopic Characterization of Some Chemical Weapons Related Organophosphonate Compounds

Abstract

Inspection protocols for the Chemical Weapons Treaty, which went into effect on April 29, 1997 require on-site analytical procedures which include a comprehensive mass spectral database of hundreds of scheduled compounds. A number of these compounds were prepared on a nanogram scale via a micro-scale synthetic approach using GC-IRD/MSD analytical instrumentation to purify and identify the resulting products. The collected electron impact mass spectra will be made available for use in relevant databases.

Key Words:

• Chemical Weapons
• Methylphosphonofluoridates
• Infrared Spectroscopy
• Mass Spectrometry