imernatonal Journal of = Mass Spectrometry ELSIE VIER International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 202 (2000) iii-iv CONTENTS Accelerated Communications A new technique to study the dissociation of energy-selected neutral intermediates Shigeo Hayakawa, Kengo Harada, Nobuaki Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Kazuo Arakawa, and Norio Morishita (Gunma, Japan) Characterization of ionized carbenes in the gas phase Robert Flammang (Mons, Belgium) Minh Tho Nguyen (Leuven, Belgium), Guy Bouchoux (Palaiseau, France), and Pascal Gerbaux (Mons, Belgium) Ligand binding energy in [(bipy)Rh(P=CH)]* by collision-induced dissociation threshold measurements Young-Min Kim and Peter Chen (Zurich, Switzerland) Gravimetric preparation of synthetic mixtures of platinum isotopes C.S.J. Wolff Briche, A. Held, B. Dyckmans, M. Berglund, P. De Biévre, and P.D.P. Taylor (Geel, Belgium) Reactions of actinide ions with pentamethylcyclopentadiene: atypical hydrocarbon activation John K. Gibson (Oak Ridge, TN, USA) Electric hexapoles and octopoles with optimized circular section rods V.V.K. Rama Rao and Amit Bhutani (Mumbai, India) Ion/molecule reactions of o-carborane(12) and a method for identifying overlapped isotopic distributions in complex mass spectra Fiona H. Scholes, Richard J.S. Morrison, Colin L. Raston (Victoria, Austrialia), and Gary H. Kruppa (Billerica, MA, USA) Multicollision-induced dissociation of multiply charged gold clusters, Auz*, n = 7-35, and Au;*, n = 19-35 J. Ziegler, G. Dietrich, S. Kriickeberg, K. Liitzenkirchen, L. Schweikhard, and C. Walther (Mainz, Germany) Now Available On . http://ChemWeb.com The World Wide Ciub for the Chemical Community http://chemweb.com/gateways/elseviehrt.m ! Abstracted/Contents in: Chem. Abstr.; Curr. Contents, Phys. Chem. Earth Sci.; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; INSPEC; Mass Spectrom. Bull.; PASCAL/CNRS 1387-3806(20001015)202: 1/3*; 1-J (CONTENTS CONTINUED) Formation and photophysics of the van der Waals complex ions [(NO),,(N,03),(FB)_]~ Xin Yang, Qifei Wu, Yihua Hu, and Shihe Yang Oxide ion formation of long-lived radionuclides in double-focusing sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and their analytical applications ee ee eS SE... ss calinanisssbaiibodinibabetindhdipnesbniilgdeannebechiebbinnahauecaannsnabasiuneunssaseagnineln 69 Peak shape for a quadrupole mass spectrometer: comparison of computer simulation and experiment K. Blaum, Ch. Geppert, P. Miiller (Mainz, Germany), W. Nortershduser (Richland, WA, USA), K. Wendt (Mainz, Germany), and B.A. Bushaw (Richland, WA, USA) Chemical ionization mass spectrometer for long-term measurements of atmospheric OH and H,SO, H. Berresheim, T. Elste, C. Plass-Diilmer (Hohenpeissenberg, Germany), F.L. Eisele, and D.J. Tanner (Boulder, CO, USA) Secondary cluster ion emission from megaelectron volts ion impacts on NaBF,. 1. Ion decay fractions and dissociation pathways M.J. Van Stipdonk, W.R. Ferrell, D.R. Justes, R.D. English, and E.A. Schweikert (College Station, TX, USA) Mass spectrometric study of the molecular and ionic sublimation of cesium iodide single crystals M.F. Butman, L.S. Kudin, A.A. Smirnov (Ivanovo, Russian Federation), and Z.A. Munir (Davis, CA, USA) Mass spectrometer based on conversion of spectra Z.Z. Latypov, L.N. Gall, and G.K. Golikov (St. Petersburg, Russia) On mass discrimination in high-pressure mass spectrometry: potential errors in measurements leading to absolute ion abundances Jamey K. Hovey and Alexander Likholyot (Zurich, Switzerland) ‘“‘Proton-transport” catalysis in the gas phase. Keto-enol isomerization of ionized acetaldehyde G. van der Rest, H. Nedev, J. Chamot-Rooke, P. Mourgues, T.B. McMahon, and H.E. Audier (Palaiseau, France) Theory of dipolar dc excitation and dc tomography in the rf quadrupole ion trap Wolfgang R. Plass (West Lafayette, IN, USA) On the mechanism of ion stimulated desorption of O* from transition-metal surfaces R. Souda (Ibaraki, Japan) Gas phase reactions of CF,0° and CF,O° - H,O and their relevance to the detection of stratospheric Hcl C. Amelynck, A.-M. Van Bavel, N. Schoon, and E. Arijs (Brussels, Belgium) The table of contents of The International Journal of Mass Spectrometry is included in ESTOC—Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service, which can be accessed on the World Wide Web at the following URLs: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/estoc or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/estoc For more information see URL LJMSP Home Page: http://www.elsevier.ni/ocate/ijmsip (CONTENTS CONTINUED) Ion detection efficiency in SIMS: dependencies on energy, mass and composition for microchannel plates used in mass spectrometery I.S. Gilmore and M.P. Seah (Middlesex, United Kingdom) Isotope ratio measurements of magnesium and determination of magnesium concentration by reverse isotope dilution technique on small amounts of *7°Mg-spiked nutrient solutions with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry J. Dombovari, J.S. Becker, and H.-J. Dietze (Jiilich, Germany) A comparison of electrospray versus nanoelectrospray ionization Fourier transform mass spectrometry for the analysis of synthetic poly(dimethylsiloxane)/poly(ethylene glycol) oligomer blends E. Peter Maziarz Ill (Rochester, NY, USA), Gary A. Baker, Joseph V. Mure, and Troy D. Wood (Buffalo, NY, USA) A low-energy CAD study of the ions MOH(H,O)* (M = Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) and [M(H,,0,)]* (M = Cr, Fe, La, Pr) Dragic Vukomanovic and John A. Stone (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) Formation, photodissociation, and structure studies of group 14(Si, Ge, Sn, and Pb)/P binary cluster ions Jian-bo Liu, Xiao-peng Xing, Peng Liu, and Zhen Gao (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) Measurement of lithium isotopic ratios as lithium tetraborate ions M.J. Bickle, H.J. Chapman (Cambridge, United Kingdom), and C-F. You (Taiwan, Republic of China) Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the trace, ultratrace and isotope analysis of long-lived radionuclides in solid samples Johanna Sabine Becker, Carola Pickhardt, and Hans-Joachim Dietze (Jiilich, Germany) Reactions of angiotensin ions with hydroiodic acid T. Gregory Schaaff, James L. Stephenson Jr., and Scott A.M cLuckey (Oak Ridge, TN, USA) Generation and characterization of ionic and neutral (CH,OBH)*” and (CH,BOH)*” in the gas phase by tandem mass spectrometry Razempeta Srinivas, Shetty Vivekananda (Hyderabad, India), Stephen J. Blanksby, Detlef Schréder (Berlin, Germany), Moschoula A. Trikoupis, Johan K. Terlouw (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), and Helmut Schwarz (Berlin, Germany) Charge transfer from neutral perfluorocarbons to various cations: long-range versus short-range reaction mechanisms G.K. Jarvis, R.A. Kennedy, C.A. Mayhew, and R.P. Tuckett (Birmingham, United Kingdom) Electron impact ionization and ion chemistry in trimethylaluminum and in trimethylgallium C.Q. Jiao (Dayton, OH), C.A. DeJoseph Jr. (Fairborn, OH, USA), P. Haaland (Dayton, OH, USA), and A. Garscadden (Fairborn, OH, USA) The table of contents of The International Journal of Mass Spectrometry is included in ESTOC—Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service, which can be accessed on the World Wide Web at the following URLs: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/estoc or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/estoc For more information see URL IJMSP Home Page: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ijmsip (CONTENTS CONTINUED) A flowing afterglow selected ion flow tube (FA/SIFT) comparison of SIFT injector flanges and Hj + N revisited Daniel B. Milligan, David A. Fairley, Colin G. Freeman, and Murray J. McEwan (Christchurch, New Zealand) How does Fe* activate ethylsiland? A theoretical study in comparison with experiments Susanne Bédrsch, Detlef Schréder, and H. 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