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Investigations Into Ambient Ionization Mechanisms: Electrospray Ionization And Direct Analysis In Real Time Mass Spectrometry, Stephen Colin Gibson
Investigations Into Ambient Ionization Mechanisms: Electrospray Ionization And Direct Analysis In Real Time Mass Spectrometry, Stephen Colin Gibson
Doctoral Dissertations
Mass spectrometry (MS) is an important tool for chemical analyses. Despite the MS requirement for generation of analyte gas-phase ions, many ion source designs afford little-to-no fragmentation, allowing characterization of intact molecules. However, this does not assure that detected ions are representative of the analytes’ natural state. Ionization mechanisms are generally complex and rarely fully understood. Fundamental research into these mechanisms provides greater insight into the relationship between solution chemistry and mass spectra. Work herein addresses aspects of two ambient ionization mechanisms: electrospray ionization (ESI) and Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART).
Ions produced by ESI are dispersed into a …