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FIGURE 19 3 The free energies of ionization of ethanol and acetic acid in water The electrostatic po tential maps of ethoxide and acetate ion show the concentration of negative charge in ethoxide versus dispersal of charge in ac etate The color ranges are equal in both models to al low direct comparison... 

SALI applies two methods of post-ionization, MPI and SPI, each of which can be used in one of the three modes of analysis survey analysis, depth profiling, and mapping ... 

A selection of amino acids (acid A, acid B,...) terminated at both ends by amide functionality, i.e., MeNHCO-CHR-NHCOMe, are provided. These are given in the ionization states found at neutral pH. For each, first identify the amino acid, and then the ionization state (neutral, protonated or deprotonated). Next compare electrostatic potential maps among the different amino acids. Which amino acids would prefer hydrophobic environments Hydrophilic environments Explain your reasoning. 

DNA sequencing and. 1113 Electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry, 417-418 Electrostatic potential map, 37 acetaldehyde, 688 acetamide, 791,922 acetate ion. 43. 53, 56, 757 acetic acid. 53. 55 acetic acid dimer, 755 acetic anhydride, 791 acetone, 55, 56. 78 acetone anion, 56 acetyl azide, 830 acetyl chloride, 791 acetylene. 262 acetylide anion, 271 acid anhydride, 791 acid chloride, 791 acyl cation, 558 adenine, 1104 alanine, 1017 alanine zwitterion, 1017 alcohol. 75 alkene, 74, 147 alkyl halide, 75 alkyne. 74... 

The use of the dynamic-FAB probe (see Section 4.4 above) has allowed the successful coupling of HPLC to this ionization technique but there is an upper limit, of around 5000 Da, to the mass of molecules which may be successfully ionized. Problem solving, therefore, often involves the use of chemical methods, such as enzymatic hydrolysis, to produce molecules of a size more appropriate for ionization, before applying techniques such as peptide mapping (see Section 5.3 below). 

Matrix-associated laser desorption ionization with a time-of-flight mass analyser (MALDl-ToF) was used to examine the crude tryptic peptide mixture from a number of the proteins, without HPLC separation, to provide a mass map, i.e. a survey of the molecular weights of the peptides generated by the digestion process. 

In general terms, it has been seen here that the parameter curves are almost always more stmctured than p parameter curves. The latter are known from years of study to broadly conform to a pattern (in the absence of resonances) that starts from a small value at threshold and over a span of a few tens of electronvolts approaches the positive limit (p = +2), essentially monotonically. Empirically, small distinctions between a and n orbital ionizations can be discussed, and of course there are many significant exceptions to such broad expectations. In contrast, there is clearly far more variability, and much less inmitive predictabihty in the detail of the curves we have seen. That being the case, while suggested shape resonant features in a and p parameter curves can sometimes apparently map onto features in the curves [55, 57, 60] these are no more prominent than other structure and seem unlikely, by themselves, to provide visual clues to the presence of a resonance. 

As was mentioned previously, photoemission has proved to be a valuable tool for measurement of the electronic structure of metal cluster particles. The information measured includes mapping the cluster DOS, ionization threshold, core-level positions, and adsorbate structure. These studies have been directed mainly toward elucidation of the convergence of these electronic properties towards their bulk analogues. Although we will explore several studies in detail, we can say that studies from different laboratories support the view that particles of 150 atoms or more are required to attain nearly bulk-like photoemission properties of transition and noble metal clusters. This result is probably one of the most firmly established findings in the area of small particles. 

A position sensitive detector (PSD) is employed, of which there are several types used effectively around the world. One type is essentially a square array of multianodes, as shown in Figure 1.6. By measuring the time-of-flight and the coordinates of the ions upon the PSD, it is possible to map out a two-dimensional elemental distribution. The elemental maps are extended to the z-direction by ionizing atoms from the surface of the specimens. The z position is inferred from the position of the ion in the evaporation sequence, so that the atom distribution can be reconstructed in a three-dimensional real space. 

Feldman, A. Antoine, M. Lin, J. Demirev, P. Covariance mapping in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrom. 2003,17, 991-995. 

The ProteinChip System from Ciphergen Biosystems uses patented SELDI (Surface-Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization) ProteinChip technology to rapidly perform the separation, detection, and analysis of proteins at the femtomole level directly from biological samples. ProteinChip Systems use ProteinChip Arrays which contain chemically (cationic, anionic, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, etc.) or biochemically (antibody, receptor, DNA, etc.) treated surfaces for specific interaction with proteins of interest. Selected washes create on-chip, high-resolution protein maps. This protein mass profile, or reten-tate map of the proteins bound to each of the ProteinChip Array surfaces, is quantitatively detected in minutes by the ProteinChip Reader. 

Recently, a quantitative electrospray ionization/mass spectrometry method (ESI/MS) has been developed to analyze the molecular profile, or hpidome of different lipid classes in very small samples. In this method, total lipid extracts from tissues or cultured cells can be directly analyzed. By manipulating the ionization method, the mass spectrographs of polar or even non-polar lipids can be obtained [8]. This method and the use of lipid arrays allow precise and quantitative identification of the lipid profile of a given tissue, and map functional changes that occur. 

Recently, a systematic experimental study has clearly proved the effect on a gaseous medium of both ASE and picosecond pedestal prior to the arrival of the ultrashort intense laser pulse [26]. The study has been based on sequences of electron density maps obtained from optical interferograms with femtosecond resolution and has been supported by numerical simulation of the ionization of the medium. 

JENSEN, O.N., PODTELEJNKOV, A., MATTHIAS-MANN, M., Delayed extraction improves specificity in database searches by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization peptide maps, Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrom., 1996,10, 1371-1378. 

Ling V., Guzzetta A.W., Canova-Davis E., Stults J.T., Hancock W.S., Covey T.R., and Shushan B.I. (1991), Characterization of the tryptic map of recombinant DNA derived tissue plasminogen activator by high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry, Anal. Chem. 63, 2909-2915. 

Cao P. and Moini M. (1998), Capillary electrophoresis/electrospray ionization high mass accuracy time-of-flight mass spectrometry for protein identification using peptide mapping, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 12, 864-870. 

Cao P. and Stults J.T. (2000), Mapping the phosphorylation sites of proteins using on-line immobilized metal-ion affinity chromatography/capillary electrophore-sis/electrospray ionization multiple stage tandem mass spectrometry, Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 14(17), 1600-1606. 

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