2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Chemical Ionization
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Mass spectrometrists have ever been searching for ionization methods softer than EI, because molecular weight determination is key for structure elucidation.
Chemical ionization
(CI) is the first of the so-called
soft ionization methods
we are going to discuss (cf. Fig. 1.2).