Adduction of ammonium to polylactides to modify their dissociation behavior in collision-induced dissociation.
Christophe ChendoTrang N T PhanMarion RolletDidier GigmesLaurence CharlesPublished in: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM (2018)
Changing the usually employed sodium-cationizing agent to ammonium was shown to induce dramatic changes in the CID behavior of PLAs. This was a simple and efficient approach to address issues encountered for end-group analysis of the particular PLA studied here.