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Laser desorption electron attachment time-of-flight mass spectrometry: A new approach to detection of involatile compounds

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We report initial results of a new method for obtaining mass spectra of involatile compounds: laser desorption electron attachment time-of-flight mass spectrometry. With this approach, laser desorbed neutral molecules are entrained in a molecular beam and subsequently ionized by low energy electron attachment. Mass analysis is carried out by a linear time-of-flight. We present a description of the apparatus and a number of examples of our early results on: van der Waals condensates of SF6, Fullerenes, derivatized Fullerenes, perfluorinated polyethers, polyphenylethers, and 5-bromouracil.

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Ingólfsson, O., Wodtke, A.M. Laser desorption electron attachment time-of-flight mass spectrometry: A new approach to detection of involatile compounds. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 12, 1339–1347 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1044-0305(01)00323-3

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