Mass spectrometry literature

Noncondensed aromatic or satured selenated heterocycles are little mentioned in NMR or mass spectrometry literature. 

These include the bibliographic file associated with the data in reference 4 and the Mass Spectrometry Literature Bulletin, published by the Mass Spectrometry Data Centre, Aldermaston, England. 

The literature on mass spectrometry is voluminous. There are at least five journals devoted entirely to the subject. The need for the present review arises because kinetics and experiments concerned with measurement of time have, to some extent, fallen between the stools of organic chemistry and chemical physics. These two disciplines continue to have a very strong influence on the mass spectrometry literature. Any deficiencies of this review in these areas are amply remedied by recent books such as Gas Phase Ion Chemistry [114] and Fundamental Aspects of Organic Mass Spectrometry [517], the somewhat older Metastable Ions [186] and the much older but extremely valuable Mass Spectrometry of Organic Compounds [139]. Electron Impact Phenomena [295] remains as an ever-lucid account of ion decomposition, and Mass... 

The QET was developed simultaneously with the RRKM theory by Rosenstock [11] and used in the mass spectrometry literature to explain breakdown curves whereas the RRKM theory was developed for neutral reaction kinetics, but they ate basically identical. 

The interpretation of mass spectra is based on the chemistry of gaseous ions these can now be formed by a wide variety of methods, and can be mass-analyzed and detected with a wide variety of instrumentation. Of necessity this book gives a limited discussion of these complete details are available in the excellent books listed at the end of this chapter. Compilations of references to the mass-spectrometry literature are also available from Chemical Abstracts and The Mass Spectrometry Bulletin of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 

The sophistication of the concepts being considered by this symposium points up the impressive advances which have been made in recent years in the understanding of ion-molecule reactions. Unfortunately, this knowledge is confined to that fraction of the scientific population which reads the current literature of mass spectrometry or radiation chemistry since writers of textbooks on kinetics have not yet discovered ion-molecule reaction kinetics as an area worthy of more than cursory mention. It is hoped that this symposium will help in some small way to remedy that situation. 

S2O was first prepared by Schenk in 1933 but he did not recognize it as such but denoted it as sulfurmonoxide [7]. Meschi and Myers [8] showed by mass spectrometry in 1956 that Schenk s sulfurmonoxide was a 1 1 mixture of S2O and SO2 in accordance with Eq. (1). Therefore, S2O was usually called sulfurmonoxide in the literature before 1956 and to some extent even up to 1960. Sometimes it was erroneously believed that S2O2 is present... 

Micromass, the mass spectrometry company, for permission to use their technical literature and application notes and, in particular, Chris Herbert for helpful discussions and access to his computer graphics. 

Figure 4.3 Schematic of a continuous-flow FAB LC-MS interface. From applications literature published by Kratos Analytical Ltd, Manchester, UK, and reproduced by permission of Mass Spectrometry International Ltd.

In this chapter, we have chosen from the scientific literature accounts of symposia published at intervals during the period 1920 1990. They are personal choices illustrating what we believe reflect significant developments in experimental techniques and concepts during this time. Initially there was a dependence on gas-phase pressure measurements and the construction of adsorption isotherms, followed by the development of mass spectrometry for gas analysis, surface spectroscopies with infrared spectroscopy dominant, but soon to be followed by Auger and photoelectron spectroscopy, field emission, field ionisation and diffraction methods. 

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