title: Laser desorption electron attachment time-of-flight mass spectrometry: a new approach to detection of involatile compounds.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106, USA.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ingólfsson
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wodtke
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001976:Bromouracil / Q000737:chemistry; D005466:Fluorocarbons / Q000737:chemistry; D007834:Lasers; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D005466:Fluorocarbons; D001976:Bromouracil