Understanding the Charge Issues in Mono and di-Quaternary Ammonium Compounds for Their Determination by LC/ESI-MS/MS

Analytical Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2367-2376

  Velpandian, Thirumurthy ^a   Nirmal, Jayabalan ^a   Arora, Beauty ^a   Ravi, Alok Kumar ^a   Kotnala, Ankita ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

LC ESI MS MS; m z; Quaternary ammonium compounds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868119431     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2012.693140     Document Type: Article

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