Gas-phase ion chemistry and organic chemistry: The story of a hybrid six-sector mass spectrometer-the "AutoSpec 6F"

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 93-112

  Gerbaux, Pascal ^a   Lamote, Luc ^b   Van Haverbeke, Yves ^a   Flammang, Robert ^a   Brown, Jeffery M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b WATERS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative ion molecule reactions; Chemical ionization; Collision induced dissociation; Electron ionization; Metastable ions; Neutralization reionization mass spectrometry; Radical cations

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DISSOCIATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CHEMICAL IONIZATION; COLLISION INDUCED DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON IONIZATION; ION/MOLECULE REACTIONS; METASTABLE IONS; NEUTRALIZATION-REIONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADICAL CATIONS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862010832     PISSN: 14690667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1255/ejms.1174     Document Type: Article

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