Liquid Chromatography Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (eBook)

Imma Ferrer, PHD, has twelve years of hands-on experience in ion trap, triple quadrupole, and time-of-flight mass spectrometry of small molecules as applied to environmental and pharmaceutical chemistry. She is currently a Professional Research Associate of the Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of the book Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry, MS/MS and Time-of-Flight MS: Analysis of Emerging Contaminants. She is also the author of numerous highly cited papers on the analysis of pesticides and pharmaceuticals by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. E. Michael Thurman, PHD, is a highly cited scientist in environmental chemistry and an Emeritus Scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He is currently Director of the Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado. His bibliography consists of more than 200 publications in environmental chemistry, including more than 100 journal articles, twenty proceedings and chapters, and eighty U.S. Geological Survey publications. Dr. Thurman has published five books dedicated to the chemical analysis of pesticides and natural products, sample preparation, and mass spectrometry.

Part I: Principles and Theoretical Aspects of Accurate Mass.

Chapter 1: Accurate Mass Measurements with Orthogonal Axis Time
of Flight Mass Spectrometry (John C. Fjeldsted).

Chapter 2: The Mass Defect, Isotope Clusters, and Accurate Mass
for Elemental Determination (E. Michael Thurman and Imma
Ferrer).

Part II: Tools for Unknown Identification using Accurate
Mass.

Chapter 3: Ion Compostions Determined with Increasing Simplicity
(Andrew H. Grange and G. Wayne Sovocool).

Chapter 4: Use and Existence of Accurate Mass Databases and
Elemental Composition Tools for Target and Non-Target Analyses
(Imma Ferrer and E. Michael Thurman).

Chapter 5: Use of UPLC-(Q)-TOF-MS for Rapid Screening of Organic
Micropollutants in Water (Felix Hernandez, Juan V. Sancho and Maria
Ibanez).

Chapter 6: The Use of Accurate Mass, Isotope Ratios and MS/MS
for the Analysis of PPCPs in Water (Michael C. Zumwalt).

Part III: Applications of LC/TOF-MS for the identification of
small molecules.

Chapter 7: Applications of LC/TOF-MS in the Environmental Field:
When Did it Start and Where is it Going? (Imma Ferrer and E.
Michael Thurman).

Chapter 8: Liquid Chromatography and Ambient Ionization
Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for the Analysis of Genuine and
Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals (Facundo M. Fern ndez, Christina Y.
Hampton, Leonard Nyadong, Arti Navare, Mark Kwasnik).

Chapter 9: Quantitative Analysis of Veterinary Drug Residues by
Sub 2 ?m Particulate High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Columns
and Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-TOF)(Anton
Kaufmann).

Chapter 10: Industrial Applications of Liquid Chromatography
Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (Jeffrey R. Gilbert, Jesse L.
Balcer, Scott A. Young, Dan A. Markham, Dennis O. Duebelbeis, and
Paul Lewer).

Chapter 11: Comprehensive Toxicological and Forensic Drug
Screening by LC/TOF-MS (Ilkka Ojanper", Anna Pelander and
Suvi Ojanper).

12. Chapter 12: Application of UPLC/TOF-MS for Residue Analysis
of Veterinary Drugs and Growth Promoting Agents in Products of
Animal Origin (Alida(Linda) A.M. Stolker).

Chapter 13: Accurate Mass Measurements with a Reflectron
Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer and the Direct Analysis in Real
Time (DART) Interface for the Identification of Unknown Compounds
Below Masses of 500 Da(O. David Sparkman, Patrick R. Jones, Matthew
Curtis).

Chapter 14: Comparison of LC/TOF-MS and LC/MS-MS for the
Analysis of 100 Pesticides in Food: Finding the "Crossover Point"
(E. Michael Thurman, Imma Ferrer, Paul A. Zavitsanos and Jerry A.
Zweigenbaum).

"This book is an important contribution to the growing field of
accurate mass measurement by TOF MS for analysis of "small
molecules". Generally, it can be recommended for all scientists
working on small molecule analysis by mass spectrometry." (Anal
Bioanal Chem, 2010)

"Throughout the book, theoretical discussions are illustrated
with concrete examples that show readers how to perform their own
accurate analyses. By arming chemists with the principles, tools,
and applications of LC/TOF mass spectrometry, this book enables
them to apply the most advanced techniques to analyse unknown and
emerging contaminants with the greatest level of accuracy
possible." (Chemistry Journals, 11 April 2011)"

"This book is an important contribution to the growing field of
accurate mass measurement by TOF MS

for analysis of "small molecules". Generally, it can be recommended
for all scientists working on small molecule analysis by mass
spectrometry." (Zentralblatt Math, 2010)

"This book is an important contribution to the growing field of
accurate mass measurement by TOF MS for analysis of "small
molecules. Generally, it can be recommended for all scientists
working on small molecule analysis by mass spectrometry."
(Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Jan -
June 2010)