NCO-, a key fragment upon dissociative electron attachment and electron transfer to pyrimidine bases: Site selectivity for a slow decay process

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1787-1797

  Da Silva, Filipe Ferreira ^a   Matias, Carolina ^a,b   Almeida, Diogo ^a   García, Gustavo ^c   Ingólfsson, Oddur ^d   Flosadóttir, Helga Dögg ^d   Ómarsson, Benedikt ^d   Ptasinska, Sylwia ^e   Puschnigg, Benjamin ^b   Scheier, Paul ^b   Limão Vieira, Paulo ^a   Denifl, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA FUNDAMENTAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Collision dynamics; DEA; Electron transfer; Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI); Metastable decay; NCO anion; Negative ion formation

Indexed keywords

COLLISION DYNAMICS; DEA; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ION FORMATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION/IONIZATION; META-STABLE DECAY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON ENERGY ANALYZERS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; NEGATIVE IONS; PHOTODISSOCIATION;

NUCLEAR REACTIONS;

NUCLEIC ACID PRECURSOR; PYRIMIDINE; THYMINE; URACIL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEHYDROGENATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DISSOCIATIVE ELECTRON ATTACHMENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENTHALPY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ANIONS; CYANATES; ELECTRONS; IONS; PYRIMIDINES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THYMINE;

EID: 84884859738     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-013-0715-9     Document Type: Article

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