Beyond the flask: Reactions on the fly in ambient mass spectrometry

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 135-146

  Espy, Ryan D ^a   Wleklinski, Michael ^a   Yan, Xin ^a   Cooks, R Graham ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient ionization; Bond activation; Derivatization; Desorption; Electrospray; Functionalization; Ion chemistry; Ionization; Organic synthesis; Reaction intermediate

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; DESORPTION; DROP FORMATION; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

AMBIENT IONIZATIONS; BOND ACTIVATION; DERIVATIZATIONS; ELECTROSPRAYS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; ION CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC SYNTHESIS;

ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

ACETAL DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; DISULFIDE; ESTER; KETONE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

AMBIENT MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DERIVATIZATION; DESORPTION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EVAPORATION; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLVENT EFFECT; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84899854550     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.02.008     Document Type: Review

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