Analysis of different synthetic homopolymers by the use of a new calculation software for tandem mass spectra

作者：Baumgaertel Anja; Scheubert Kerstin; Pietsch Bernhard; Kempe Kristian; Crecelius Anna C; Boecker Sebastian; Schubert Ulrich S^*

来源：Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 2011, 25(12): 1765-1778.

DOI：10.1002/rcm.5019

The manual interpretation of tandem mass spectra of synthetic polymers is very time-consuming. Therefore, a new software tool was developed to accelerate the interpretation of spectra obtained without requiring any further knowledge about the polymer class or the fragmentation behavior under high-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) conditions. The software only requires an alphabetical list of elements and a peak list of the measured substance as an xml file for the evaluation of the chosen mass spectrum. Tandem mass spectra of different homopolymers, like poly(2-oxazoline)s, poly(ethylene glycol) and poly(styrene), were interpreted by the new software tool. This contribution describes a fast and automated software tool for the rapid analysis of homopolymers.

• 出版日期2011-6-30