Characteristics and origins of common chemical noise ions in negative ESI LC-MS

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 553-560

  Trötzmüller, Martin ^a   Guo, Xinghua ^a   Fauland, Alexander ^a   Köfeler, Harald ^b   Lankmayr, Ernst ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

atmospheric pressure chemical ionization; chemical background noise; electrospray ionization; LC MS; tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MASS; AMMONIUM ACETATE; AMMONIUM FORMATE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE CHEMICAL IONIZATION; BACKGROUND NOISE; CHEMICAL NOISE; DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; ELECTROSPRAYS; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ELUENTS; IMPURITIES IN; ION-MOLECULE REACTION; LC-MS; MOBILE PHASE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DEGRADATION; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; IMPURITIES; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ANALYSIS;

IONS;

AMMONIUM ACETATE; AMMONIUM FORMATE; BACKGROUND ION; ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL NOISE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROSPRAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MASS SPECTROMETRY; NOISE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ACETATES; ACETIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FORMIC ACIDS; IONS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 79958174526     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1924     Document Type: Article

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