Mv. Kosevich et al., COMPARISON OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE-ION CLUSTERS OF METHANOL AND ETHANOL OBSERVED BY LOW-TEMPERATURE SECONDARY-ION MASS-SPECTROMETRY, Rapid communications in mass spectrometry, 11(13), 1997, pp. 1411-1416
Positively and negatively charged cluster ions were produced from meth
anol and ethanol samples under low temperature secondary ion mass spec
trometric conditions, Neat alcohol clusters [(MnH+)-H-.], [Mn-H](-) an
d mixed alcohol-water cluster sets [M-n(.)(H2O)(m)H-.(+)] and [M-n(.)(
H2O)(m)-H](-) sets were recorded as the most prominent peaks in the sp
ectra, Clusters composed of up to 30 molecules have been observed, Dis
tributions of these cluster series, and also some satellite ion cluste
rs observed with lower abundances, are discussed. (C) 1997 by John Wil
ey & Sons, Ltd.