Fragmentation mechanism of product ions from protonated proline-containing tripeptides in electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2051-2061

  You, Zhu Shuang ^a   Wen, Yong Jun ^b   Jiang, Ke Zhi ^a,c   Pan, Yuan Jiang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chengdu Capgemini Biomedical Technology Company Ltd   (China)

^c HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cyclic a2; internal iminium ion; intramolecular proton transfer; ion neutral complex; proline; proton bridged complex; theoretical calculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861867877     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-012-5117-z     Document Type: Article

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