Electron Pyrolysis, a New Method of Organic Microanalysis

Abstract

Organic compounds incubuted with tritiated water of specific activity 5 Cilml are specifically Ji-agmented. The J-active fragments can be detected in very small quantities by chrcmatographic separation. Chemical identification of these fragments provides information about the original compounds, as has been shown by experiments with amino acids, esters, lactones, amides, quinones, terpenes, nitrogen-sulfur heterocycles, and natirrul products.