A mass spectrum is a set of charged fragments (cations or anions) formed in the ionization of a substance being studied. The substance is not regenerated in mass spectral experiments; that is, in fact, this method is a physical method of investigating the transformations of a compound rather than the compound itself. Therefore, the structure of the substance being studied is determined from its behavior (reactivity) under dissociative ionization. A great body of information concerning the fragmentation of organic compounds under electron impact ionization has been summarized and classified, and empirical rules were established to relate the structure of molecules with their mass spectra. These rules based on the concepts of physical organic chemistry form the basis for the structural analytical application of mass spectrometry.In determining spectrum-structure correlations, the choice of parameters characterizing the mass spectrum and structure of a compound is a crucial problem. For the description of a molecular structure, data retrieval systems commonly use sets of microfragments associated with limited sets of spectral lines. A fingerprint method is also widely used in which the spectrum of the substance being studied is compared with the spectra of known compounds included in the mass spectral database. Another approach is based on generating integral parameters (indices) of the mass spectrum taking into account all the spectral data and comparing them with the structural parameters of the molecules being studied. The molecular mass, the number of atoms in the molecule, and the topological and information indices of molecular graphs are widely used as structural invariants in establishing the structure-property correlations [1,2]. We propose a set of experimental and information indices (the convolution of the mass spectrum into one number) generated taking into account the entire mass spectral data (mass numbers and intensities of all the ion peaks comprising the mass spec- † Deceased. trum) as an integral parameter of the mass spectrum [3,4]. It has been shown with the example of some classes of organoelement compounds that these indices correlate with the structural or electronic parameters of the compounds being studied [5][6][7][8][9].In this work, we present a study of the relationship between the integral mass spectral and structural parameters using six classes of organometallic compounds as an example. EXPERIMENTAL Mass spectra were obtained using an MS-890 mass spectrometer (Kratos) with a direct sample injection system at 250 ° C and 70 eV. The mass spectra of all the studied compounds were brought to a monoisotopic form using the AELITA software [10].Regression analysis was performed using the EXCEL program package.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONThe following mass spectral and structural parameters were used.1. The weighted average mass of all ions comprising the mass spectrum [4] ,where m i and P i are the mass and occurrence probability for the given ion, respectively ( P i = I i / is calculated as the...