To b or not to b: the ongoing saga of peptide b ions

AG Harrison - Mass spectrometry reviews, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Modern soft ionization techniques readily produce protonated or multiply protonated
peptides. Collision‐induced dissociation (CID) of these protonated species is often used as …

Infrared spectroscopy and theoretical studies on gas-phase protonated leu-enkephalin and its fragments: direct experimental evidence for the mobile proton

NC Polfer, J Oomens, S Suhai… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The gas-phase structures of the protonated pentapeptide Leu-enkephalin and its main
collision-induced dissociation (CID) product ions, b 4 and a 4, are investigated by means of …

[KİTAP][B] Oxazoles: synthesis, reactions, and spectroscopy

DC Palmer - 2003 - Wiley Online Library
By far the most comprehensive review of the synthesis and reactions of mononuclear
oxazoles and derivatives is The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Volume 45, edited …

Proton migration and tautomerism in protonated triglycine

CF Rodriquez, A Cunje, T Shoeib, IK Chu… - Journal of the …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Proton migration in protonated glycylglycylglycine (GGG) has been investigated by using
density functional theory at the B3LYP/6-31++ G (d, p) level of theory. On the protonated …

Elucidation of fragmentation mechanisms of protonated peptide ions and their products: a case study on glycylglycylglycine using density functional theory and …

HE Aribi, CF Rodriquez, DRP Almeida… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The fragmentation mechanisms of protonated triglycine and its first-generation dissociation
products have been investigated using a combination of density functional theory …

Copper-mediated peptide radical ions in the gas phase

E Bagheri-Majdi, Y Ke, G Orlova, IK Chu… - The Journal of …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Molecular radical cations, M•+, of amino acids and oligopeptides are produced by collision-
induced dissociation of mixed complex ions,[CuII (dien) M]• 2+, that contain CuII, an amine …

Do all b2 ions have oxazolone structures? Multistage mass spectrometry and ab initio studies on protonated N-acyl amino acid methyl ester model systems

JM Farrugia, AJ Richard, GE Reid - International Journal of Mass …, 2001 - Elsevier
The tandem mass spectrometry fragmentation reactions of 21 protonated N-acyl amino acid
methyl esters are examined as models for more complicated peptides. Four main types of …

Proton-driven amide bond-cleavage pathways of gas-phase peptide ions lacking mobile protons

BJ Bythell, S Suhai, A Somogyi… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The mobile proton model (Dongré, AR, Jones, JL, Somogyi, A., and Wysocki, VHJ Am.
Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 8365− 8374) of peptide fragmentation states that the ionizing protons …

Fragmentation of protonated tripeptides: the proline effect revisited

RN Grewal, H El Aribi, AG Harrison… - The Journal of …, 2004 - ACS Publications
The fragmentation of protonated tripeptides under metastable ion conditions and collision-
induced conditions are reported. The majority of protonated tripeptides cleave at the C …

Peptide sequence scrambling through cyclization of b5 ions

AG Harrison - Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2008 - Springer
The CID mass spectra of the MH+ ions and the b 5 ions derived therefrom have been
determined for the hexapeptides YAAAAA, AYAAAA, AAYAAA, AAAYAA, and AAAAYA. The …