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Chemical Ionization of Saturated Hydrocarbons Using Organometallic Ion Chemistry

July 1, 2002
Author(s)
H M. Byrd, Charles M. Guttman, D P. Ridge
Introduction: The potential for quick and direct measurement of chemical composition, absolute molecular mass (MM), MM distribution of linear and branched saturated polyolefins makes mass spectrometry especially attractive to the polymer industry. However

Quantitation of Polymer End Groups Using MALDI TOF MS

July 1, 2002
Author(s)
A P. Weaver, Charles M. Guttman, Kathleen M. Flynn
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS) has been employed to analyze polystryrene mixtures of molecular mass ca. 4000u. The component polymers of thes mixtures are identical except for their end groups

Tri-Alpha-Napthyl Benzene as a Crystalline or Glassy MALDI Matrix

April 19, 2002
Author(s)
Barry J. Bauer, Charles M. Guttman, Da-Wei Liu, William R. Blair
Tri-alpha-napthyl benzene (TANB) is used as a matrix in matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) spectroscopy. Electrosprayed TANB is crystalline and has a melting point of 180 2 C. A glass of TANB is obtained with a glass transition temperature

Data Analysis Methods for Synthetic Polymer Mass Spectrometry: Autocorrelation

February 1, 2002
Author(s)
William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman
Autocorrelation is shown to be useful in describing the periodic patterns found in high-resolution mass spectra of synthetic polymers. Examples of this usefulness are described for a simple linear homopolymer to demonstrate the method fundamentals, a

MALDI MS of Saturated Hydrocarbon Polymers: Polyethylene and Other Polyolefins

May 1, 2001
Author(s)
William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman, B M. Fanconi, Barry J. Bauer
Saturated hydrocarbon polymers, polyethylene and polypropylene, are, by production volume, the most widely used of all synthetic polymers. Their molecular mass and molecular mass distribution (MMD) are critical in determining performance properties. There

Making MALDI-TOF-MS an Absolute Method for Determination of the MMD of Polymers

April 1, 2001
Author(s)
Charles M. Guttman, William R. Blair, S Wetzel
In 1963, Donald McIntyre of the NBS Polymers Division produced the first polymer molecular mass standards to be issued by NBS as Standard Reference Materials (SRM), SRM 705. The appearance of this SRM marked the beginning of a long and continuing tradition

NIST-Sponsored Interlaboratory Comparison of Polystyrene Molecular Mass Distribution Obtained by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry: Statistical Analysis

March 1, 2001
Author(s)
Charles M. Guttman, S Wetzel, William R. Blair, B M. Fanconi, Kathleen M. Flynn, R J. Goldschmidt, William E. Wallace, David L. VanderHart
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) is becoming a new and important technique in synthetic polymer characterization. Yet much is still unknown about the molecular mass distribution (MWD) which is

Response Saturation of Polystyrene in MALDI

July 1, 2000
Author(s)
R J. Goldschmidt, Charles M. Guttman
For synthetic polymer samples, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) time-of-Flight (TOF) mass spectrometry (MS) can yield qualitative information about end groups and repeat units, and also quantitative information, such as molecular masses

MALDI-TOF MS Analysis of a Library of Polymerizable Cyclodextrin Derivatives

April 1, 2000
Author(s)
Rafael L. Bowen, M Farahani, Sabine H. Dickens, Charles M. Guttman
Polymerizable cyclodextrin derivatives (PCDs) have been proposed as candidates for use in dental therapeutics (Bowen, 1996 and Bowen and Reed, 1997). Here PCD libraries were synthosized by quasi-random reactions of 6 moles of methacrylic anhydride plus 7

MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry of Polymeric Silsesquioxanes

March 1, 2000
Author(s)
William E. Wallace, Charles M. Guttman, Joseph M. Antonucci
Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry has been shown to be an effective method to determine the degree-of-intramolecular-condensation of polymeric silsesquioxanes. The nature of the organic R' leaving group was found