Investigations of chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial compounds with proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry for a real-time threat monitoring scenario

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 325-332

  Kassebacher, Thomas ^a,b   Sulzer, Philipp ^a   Jürschik, Simone ^a   Hartungen, Eugen ^a   Jordan, Alfons ^a   Edtbauer, Achim ^a   Feil, Stefan ^a   Hanel, Gernot ^a   Jaksch, Stefan ^a   Märk, Lukas ^a   Mayhew, Chris A ^c   Märk, Tilmann D ^a,b  

^a IONICON Analytik GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ALARM SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL WARFARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTON TRANSFER;

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CHLOROACETOPHENONE; COST EFFECTIVE; PRODUCT IONS; PROTON TRANSFER REACTIONS; TERRORISTS ATTACK; THREAT AGENTS; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXIC CHEMICALS; TOXIC INDUSTRIAL COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 84871278659     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6456     Document Type: Article

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