https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00310-7
Facile formation of bare silver clusters in electrospray ionization multi-stage mass spectrometry
Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire,
UMR 5579 (Université Lyon I et CNRS),
43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Corresponding author: a rantoine@lasim.univ-lyon1.fr
Received:
9
September
2005
Revised:
21
September
2005
Published online:
16
November
2005
We report the observation of bare silver cluster cations obtained by electrospray ionization from a solution containing a metal salt and tryptophan. Multiple step collision-induced dissociation in a quadrupole ion trap of Ag is reported.
PACS: 36.40.-c – Atomic and molecular clusters / 82.80.Ms – Mass spectrometry (including SIMS, multiphoton ionization and resonance ionization mass spectrometry, MALDI)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2005