Fragmentation reaction

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Fragmentation reaction
fragmentation reaction (in mass spectrometry)

Reaction of an ion that results in two or more fragments of which at least one is an ion.

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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the Gold Book). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins.

From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013.

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Fragmentation reaction

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A fragmentation reaction may be written:

The decomposition of a metastable ion of mass-to-charge ratio into an ion of mass-to-charge ratio after electric acceleration of the metastable ion and before magnetic deflection gives rise to a peak in the mass spectrum at an apparent mass, . The symbol should be used to indicate the apparent mass of the product ions giving rise to this peak. Traditionally, the peak itself has been called a metastable peak and this should preferably be expressed as metastable ion peak. It is nevertheless recommended that the former term should be retained. The word metastable should never be used as a noun. Its use as an adjective should be limited to such terms as metastable ion, where it is used correctly, and to the special case of metastable peak discussed above. It should never be used in such terms as metastable reaction, metastable decomposition, metastable studies, etc. It should be clear that the metastable ion is the ion that undergoes fragmentation; it is not detected. When a reaction is written with an asterisk above the arrow as shown:

this means that the reaction has been confirmed by the observation of a metastable peak. The textual description of such a process may be written as, for example, (, , calcd. 18.2, obsd. 18.3) meaning 'for the fragmentation a metastable peak at 18.3 (calculated 18.2) has been observed'.

Source: PAC, 1991, 63, 1541 ([[Recommendations for nomenclature and symbolism for mass spectroscopy]] (including an appendix of terms used in vacuum technology). (Recommendations 1991)) on page 1557

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