Collision-induced dissociation of mass-selected phosphorus cluster cations

Rong bin Huang; Zhao yang Liu; Hai feng Liu; Li hua Chen; Qiang Zhang; Chun ru Wang; Lan sun Zhang; Fu yi Liu; Shu qin Yu; Xing xiao Ma

doi:10.1016/0168-1176(95)04291-1

Collision-induced dissociation of mass-selected phosphorus cluster cations

Rong bin Huang
, Zhao yang Liu
, Hai feng Liu
, Li hua Chen
, Qiang Zhang
, Chun ru Wang
, Lan sun Zhang
, Fu yi Liu
, Shu qin Yu
, Xing xiao Ma

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Abstract

Phosphorus cluster cations of various sizes have been generated by laser ablation of red phosphorus powders. The magic numbers of these cluster ions appearing in the recorded spectrum were 4, 7, 11, 14, 18, 21 and 25. On a home-made tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometer, P_n⁺ (n = 4-25) were studied via collision-induced dissociation (CID) by crossing the mass-selected phosphorus cluster ion beam with a supersonic nitrogen beam. After collision, P_n⁺ has the tendency to lose P₄ units and the number of tetramer fragments ejected upon dissociation increases with the parent phosphorus cluster size. The CID results show that the tetramer is the structural unit of the phosphorus clusters and larger cluster ions are generally less stable. Among the daughter ions surviving from the collisions, P₄⁺ is most stable, and P₇⁺ and P₈⁺ come next.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	55-62
Number of pages	8
Journal	International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Processes
Volume	151
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1176(95)04291-1
State	Published - Dec 11 1995

Keywords

Collision-induced dissociation
Mass distribution
Phosphorus cluster cations
Tandem time-of-flight mass spectrometer

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