Investigations of the fragmentation pathways of benzylpyridinium ions under ESI/MS conditions

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1668-1675

  Zins, Emilie Laure ^a   Rondeau, David ^b   Karoyan, Philippe ^c   Fosse, Céline ^c   Rochut, Sophie ^c   Pepe, Claude ^c  

^a Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Benzylpyridinium ions; DFT calculations; Ion molecule reactions; Mass spectrometry; Tropylium ions

Indexed keywords

BENZYLPYRIDINIUM IONS; DFT CALCULATION; DFT CALCULATIONS; ION/MOLECULE REACTIONS; TROPYLIUM; TROPYLIUM IONS;

EXPERIMENTS; IONIZATION OF GASES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

IONS;

BENZYLPYRIDINIUM ION; ION; PYRIDINIUM DERIVATIVE; TROPYLIUM ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GAS; IONIZATION; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

EID: 72449190055     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1672     Document Type: Article

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