Tandem mass spectrometry of synthetic polymers

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1277-1286

  Crecelius, Anna C ^a,b   Baumgaertel, Anja ^a,b   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a,b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CID; ESI; MALDI; MS MS; Tandem MS

Indexed keywords

CID; ESI; MALDI; MS/MS; TANDEM MS;

DESORPTION; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; ESTERS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; POLYMERS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

COPOLYMER; MACROGOL; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; MACROMOLECULE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 70349276784     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1623     Document Type: Review

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