Abstract
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry has become an important technique to characterize the chemical structure of industrial polymer materials. MALDI methods have been developed to address a broad variety of different polymer materials containing different chemistries. One of the key aspects of the typical MALDI experiment is the generation of intact ions. The development of Atmospheric Pressure (AP) MALDI quadrupole ion trap (QIT) instruments has opened another channel to obtaining MS/MS experiments for polymer samples. These experiments provide a new method to obtain chemical structure information from MALDI experiments. Collision-Induced Dissociation (CID) provides an improved MALDI MS/MS experiment that can be done on readily available mass spectrometers. AP MALDI QIT techniques have been successfully applied to a variety of synthetic polymers. This work explores the applicability of AP MALDI QIT methods to relatively low molecular weight ethoxylated surfactants. In these experiments we show the CID fragmentation mass spectra on some ethoxylated surfactants, and demonstrate the existence of analyte matrix clusters.
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Hanton, S.D., Parees, D.M. & Zweigenbaum, J. The fragmentation of ethoxylated surfactants by AP-MALDI-QIT. The official journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry 17, 453–458 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasms.2005.11.013
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