
%0 Journal Article
%A Lacey, MJ 
%A Macdonald, CG 
%T Possible errors and ambiguities in the assignment of metastable peaks in mass spectrometry
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1978/10/01
%V 31
%N 10
%P 2161-2166
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9782161
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9782161 
%X A single (two-dimensional) scan may not provide sufficient information to define unambiguously the metastable ion reactions occurring in a double-focusing mass spectrometer, but this ambiguity may be resolved by three-dimensional analysis of the ion-current data. An analysis of data for diphenyl-methane demonstrates that single scans may lead to incorrect assignments of the ions involved in certain reactions, and of the location of the reactions in the flight tube. 
