Mass Spectrometry A Textbook
Mass spectrometry today is an indispensable tool in chemistry and life sciences. This book is tailored to guide students and professionals as well as novices to mass spectrometry from other fields. Mass Spectrometry - A Textbook will guide them from their
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Jurgen H. Gross
Mass Spectrometry A Textbook
With 357 Illustrations and Tables
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DR. JURGEN
H. GROSS
Institute of Organic Chemistry University of Heidelberg 1m Neuenheimer Feld 270 69120 Heidelberg Germany [email protected]
Problems and Solutions available via author's website www.ms-textbook.com
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006923046 1st ed. 2004. Corr. 2nd printing ISBN 978-3-642-07388-5 DOl 10.1 007/978-3-540-36756-7
ISBN 978-3-540-36756-7 (eBook)
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Dedicated to my wife Michaela and my daughters Julia and Elena
Preface
When non-mass spectrometrists are talking about mass spectrometry it rather often sounds as if they were telling a story out of Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Indeed, mass spectrometry appears to be regarded as a mysterious method, just good enough to supply some molecular weight information. Unfortunately, this rumor about the dark side of analytical methods reaches students much earlier than their first contact with mass spectrometry. Possibly, some of this may have been bred by mass spectrometrists themselves who tended to celebrate each mass spectrum they obtained from the gigantic machines of the early days. Of course, there were also those who enthusiastically started in the 1950s to develop mass spectrometry out of the domain of physics to become a new analytical tool for chemistry. Nonetheless, some oddities remain and the method which is to be introduced herein is not always straightforward and easy. If you had asked me, the author, just after having finished my introductory course whether mass spectrometry would become my preferred area of work, I surely would have strongly denied. On the other hand, J. J. Veith's mass spectrometry laboratory at Darmstadt University was bright and clean, had no noxious odors, and thus presented a nice contrast to a preparative organi
