Introduction of soft ionization techniques, such as electrospray ionization (ESI), has resulted in extensive use of mass spectrometry based techniques to study biomolecules in the gas phase. Despite thorough studies of the gas-phase chemistry of even-electron biomolecules, the examination of their odd-electron counterparts has to this point been much less extensive due to the inefficiency of ESI in generating such species. Among various methods that could be employed to generate and study odd-electron biomolecules in the gas phase, redox processes involving metal ions and homolytic cleavage of metallated amino acid or peptide derivatives would be attractive from a chemical perspective since, in principle, a wide range of metals and biomolecules or biomolecule derivatives could be explored. An important aspect of these approaches is that they can be carried out on a wide range of tandem mass spectrometers equipped with electrospray ionization and collision induced dissociation capabilities. (For complete abstract open document)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245578 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Wee, Sheena |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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