ESI of Surfactants

Surfactants belong to a group of products where a low price is crucial, and therefore they are usually synthesized from coarsely defined mineral oil fractions or vegetable oils both of which represent (sometimes complex) mixtures (Fig. 11.25). Cationic and anionic surfactants are readily detected by ESI, but it also serves well for the detection of non-ionic surfactants which tend to form [MH-alkali] or [M-H] ions, respectively. [124-128] 

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