Metastable ion Characteristics. XXXXIII—separation and comparison of collisional activation spectra and metastable ion spectra

Autor: Timothy Wachs, Fred W. McLafferty, C. C. Van de Sande
Rok vydání: 1976
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Zdroj: Organic Mass Spectrometry. 11:1308-1312
ISSN: 1096-9888
0030-493X
DOI: 10.1002/oms.1210111213
Popis: Additional ion acceleration in a separate collision chamber in the field free drift region makes it possible to add extra kinetic energy to those ions undergoing decomposition in the chamber. In this way product ions formed in the collision chamber (the [collisional activation] spectrum) can be distinguished from ions formed from decompositions in the low pressure portion of the field free drift region (the [metastable ion] spectrum). This technique is used to show that often a relatively small proportion of the ions in the [pure] collisional activation spectrum arises from processes which produce the metastable ion spectrum.
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