Differentiation of linear and cyclic polymer architectures by MALDI tandem mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS2)

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-82

  Yol, Aleer M ^a   Dabney, David E ^a,d   Wang, Shih Fan ^b   Laurent, Boyd A ^c   Foster, Mark D ^b   Quirk, Roderic P ^b   Grayson, Scott M ^c   Wesdemiotis, Chrys ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b University of Akron   (United States)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

^d Stepan Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclic versus linear structure; Macromolecular architecture; MALDI; Synthetic polymers; Tandem mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

LINEAR STRUCTURES; MACROMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; MALDI; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MACROMOLECULES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYBUTADIENES; POLYSTYRENES;

POLYMERS;

1,3 BUTADIENE DERIVATIVE; MONOMER; POLYMER; POLYOLEFIN; POLYSTYRENE; RUTHENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLICK CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGENATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; PROTON TRANSPORT; RING CLOSING METATHESIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BUTADIENES; ELASTOMERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYSTYRENES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84873044728     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-012-0497-5     Document Type: Article

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