Mass Spectrometry for Chemists and Biochemists

This second, fully-updated edition on mass spectrometry forms an ideal undergraduate–postgraduate and research textbook.

Robert A. W. Johnstone (Author), Malcolm E. Rose (Author)

9780521424974, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 October 1996

524 pages, 192 b/w illus. 16 tables
25.3 x 19.6 x 3.2 cm, 1.363 kg

"This is a very good reference book..." Robert T. Rosen, Journal of Food Biochemistry

This book describes the full range of mass spectrometry techniques and applications. This versatile technique is in ubiquitous use in universities and industry laboratories because of its ability to identify and quantify materials quickly and, if necessary, in minute amounts, and solve analytical problems in a huge variety of fields. The authors adopt an instructional approach and make use of recent examples to illustrate important points. This second edition includes new methods and applications that have developed in the last ten years. Powerful methods combining mass spectrometry with newer separation techniques, the increased use of computers, and analysis of once difficult polar and large-mass compounds such as proteins using new ionisation methods are all discussed. Requiring no previous knowledge of mass spectrometry, this is an ideal teaching text at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and will also be of considerable interest to research workers.

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Table of quantities
List of abbreviations
1. The mass spectrum
2. Instrument design
3. Methods of ionization
4. Computers in mass spectrometry: data systems
5. Combined chromatography and mass spectrometry
6. Uses of derivatization
7. Quantitative mass spectrometry
8. Metastable ions and mass spectrometry
9. Theory of mass spectrometry
10. Structure elucidation
11. Examples of structure elucidation by mass spectrometry
12. Further discussion of selected topics
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Analytical chemistry [PNF]