TIME OF FLIGHT MASS-SPECTROMETRY AND TANDEM TIME OF FLIGHT PHOTOFRAGMENTATION DYNAMICS
Teaching by: Michalis Velegrakis , Panagiotis Papagiannakopoulos and Yannis Lazarou
Outline:
- The Time of Flight (TOF) instruments as a mass spectrometer
- Application of TOF as an analytical apparatus
- Manipulation of the flight path of the ions (Ion optics)
- Mass selection
- Ion-Molecule reactions in a TOF apparatus
- Ion-Photon interactions, Laser photofragmentation spectroscopy
Laboratory training
- Take mass spectra of inorganic and organic molecules with a quadrapole mass spectrometer
- Study the dependencies of the mass spectra of molecules on several experimental factors
- Qualitative analysis of chemical mixtures by mass spectrometry
- Quantitative analysis of chemical samples by mass spectrometry