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

Anja Baumgaertel, Kerstin Scheubert, Bernhard Pietsch, Kristian Kempe, Anna C. Crecelius, Sebastian Böcker, Ulrich S. Schubert

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1765-1778
Number of pages14
JournalRapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Volume25
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jun 2011
Externally publishedYes

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