Electrospray ionization mechanisms for large polyethylene glycol chains studied through tandem ion mobility spectrometry

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1332-1345

  Larriba, Carlos ^a,b,c   De La Mora, Juan Fernandez ^a   Clemmer, David E ^b  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SEADM SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beads on a string; Chains; Charge reducing buffer; Charge residue; Dimers; Dimethylammonium; DMA; Dole's; Drift tube; Electrospray; Ethylammonium; Extrusion; IMS IMS; Ion evaporation; Ion mobility; Ionization; Mass spectrometry; PEG; Poly ethylene glycol; Poly(ethyleneglycol); Polyethyleneglycol; Polymer; Tandem IMS

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIMERS; DROPS; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; EXTRUSION; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETERS; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERS; POLYOLS; POSITIVE IONS;

BEADS ON A STRING; CHARGE REDUCING BUFFER; CHARGE RESIDUE; DIMETHYLAMMONIUM; DMA; DOLE'S; DRIFT TUBE; ELECTROSPRAYS; ETHYLAMMONIUM; IMS-IMS; ION EVAPORATION; ION MOBILITY; TANDEM IMS;

CHAINS;

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; BUFFER; CATION; DIMER; MACROGOL; METHANOL; WATER; DIMETHYLAMINE; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; FORMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; TRIETHYLAMMONIUM CATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTROSPRAY; EVAPORATION; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; IONIZATION; MASS; VACUUM; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DIMETHYLAMINES; FORMATES; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VACUUM;

EID: 84904881514     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-0885-0     Document Type: Article

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