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SUBMITTER: Alharbi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830629 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alharbi Abdullah A Boguslavskiy Andrey E AE Austin Dane D Thiré Nicolas N Wood D D Hawkins P P McGrath Felicity F Johnson A S AS Lopez-Quintas I I Schmidt Bruno B Légaré Francois F Marangos J P JP Le Anh-Thu AT Bhardwaj Ravi R
Scientific reports 20180228 1
Structural isomers, molecules having the same chemical formula but with atoms bonded in different order, are hard to identify using conventional spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. They exhibit virtually indistinguishable mass spectra when ionized by electrons. Laser mass spectrometry based on photoionization of the isomers has emerged as a promising alternative but requires shaped ultrafast laser pulses. Here we use transform limited femtosecond pulses to distinguish the isomers using two metho ...[more]