Electron impact studies. LVI. The fluorenyl and phenalenyl cations. The application of metastable characteristics.

A study of the abundances of certain metastable peaks formed by the de- composition of ions in the first and second field-free regions of a double-focusing mass spectrometer has shown that the M-1 ions (m/e 165) in the mass spectra of fluorene and phenalene have different structures. Correlations based on these structures have been obtained for C13H9+ species formed from different systems.