title: Arylboronic acid chemistry under electrospray conditions.
abstract: Boronic acids are important in the organic and biological arenas. Thus, their identification and characterization are important. ESI-MS is a well-known tool for such uses. Herein we report a systematic analysis of the chemical behavior of arylboronic acids under ESI-MS conditions. Such information will be very critical to understanding the gas-phase chemistry of boronic acids in an ESI mass spectrometer ion source in general and the MS analysis of boronic acids and their macromolecular conjugates in particular.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 4098, Atlanta, GA 30302-4098, USA.
authors.forename: Lifang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chaofeng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Sarah Kathryn
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Burroughs
authors.forename: Siming Liu
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Binghe
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D001897:Boronic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D001897:Boronic Acids; D046911:Macromolecular Substances