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That bond and then, or pardon me, that carbon, and then the carbon that is attached to that carbon of interest is known as the alpha carbon.
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So looking at a from this problem, the carbon of interest is the carbon that has the alcohol on it, and then the alpha carbons are the carbons on either side of that carbon with the alcohol.
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So alpha cleavage means that those bonds are the bonds that are potentially breaking.
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And so when we break those bonds and form cat ions in the mass spectrometer, what we get are the two cationons that i've drawn down here.
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You would, of course, also get the other piece of the molecule, but it wouldn't have a charge.
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It wouldn't be a cat ion.
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And so this problem is asking just about cation...