Tandem mass spectrometry of poly(ethylene imine)s by electrospray ionization (ESI) and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-114

  Altuntaş, Esra ^a   Knop, Katrin ^a,b   Tauhardt, Lutz ^a   Kempe, Kristian ^a   Crecelius, Anna C ^a,b   Jäger, Michael ^a   Hager, Martin D ^a   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

collision induced dissociation; electrospray ionization; fragmentation mechanism; poly(ethylene imine)s; tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

COLLISION-INDUCED DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSPRAYS; FRAGMENTATION MECHANISM; POLY(ETHYLENEIMINE); TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION; DESORPTION; DISSOCIATION; ETHYLENE; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HYDROGEN; IONIZATION; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION;

ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

HYDROGEN; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION QUADRUPOLE TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; RING OPENING METATHESIS POLYMERIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CHEMICAL PROCESSES; IMINES; IONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYETHYLENES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84856331584     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.2032     Document Type: Article

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