Spectroscopy of Neutral Peptides in the Gas Phase: Structure, Reactivity, Microsolvation, Molecular Recognition

Principles of Mass Spectrometry Applied to Biomolecules

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-61

  Gerhards, Markus ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Double resonance and amino acid microwave spectroscopy; Laser spectroscopic methods and microwave spectroscopy; Neutral peptides spectroscopy in gas phase

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

DOUBLE RESONANCE; GASPHASE; MICROSOLVATION; SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD;

GASES;

EID: 84889768213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047005042X.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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