The liquid secondary ionization mass spectra of crown ether solutions and crown ether solutions containing alkali metal cations were generated. Cesium cations acted as both the primary ion beam and as a competing gas-selvedge-phase reactant. The data suggest that crown ether complexes formed in the condensed phase survive intact the fast ion bombarding event and the transition into the gas phase. The data further suggest that crown ether complexes formed in the condensed phase predominate in the ion spectrum over the corresponding complexes formed in the selvedge.
Static liquid secondary ion mass spectra were generated for a variety of dipeptides dissolved in common liquid secondary ion mass spectrometric matrices. The relationship of the ion intensities of the monomer and non-covalent dimers was examined in order to determine the origin of non-covalent dimerization. The results demonstrate that the ion intensities are independent of solution equilibria and are indicative of first-order gas-phase kinetics.
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