THE AVAILABILITY OF MASS SPECTRA AND INTERPRETATION SKILLS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR UNAMBIGUOUS IDENTIFICATION OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC)-RELATED CHEMICALS [1-2]. THIS PAPER EXAMINES ELECTRON IONIZATION (EI) AND ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION (ESI) MASS SPECTRAL FRAGMENTATION ROUTES OF SPIROALKYLPHOSHONATE AS SCHEDULE CHEMICALS. …

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS (CWAS), MAINLY MUSTARD GAS, WERE USED ON A LARGE SCALE IN THE WORLD WAR I. IN ADDITION TO MUSTARD GAS, NEUROTOXIC AGENTS, WHICH ARE ALSO KNOWN AS NERVE AGENTS, SUCH AS SARIN AND TABUN WERE EMPLOYED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE IRAN–IRAQ WAR THEN WERE USED IN SOME TERRORIST ATTACKS IN JAPAN [1]. ...

ALL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE PRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT, STOCKPILING AND USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS ARE FORBIDDEN BY THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC), WHICH CAME INTO FORCE ON 29 APRIL 1997. ...

AN ONGOING AREA OF RESEARCH IN OUR LABORATORY IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN THE UTILIZATION OF MICROSYNTHESIS AND MASS SPECTRAL STUDIES OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS FOR CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) VERIFICATION [1, 2]. THE STATES PARTIES TO THE CWC HAVE ESTABLISHED THE.....