“…In recent years, this technique has been widely used for solving problems in organic chemistry, biology and medicine (Henry and Bertrand, ; Zheng et al ., ; Nygren and Malmberg, ). There is a variant of secondary ion mass spectrometry in which the substance investigated is placed in liquid (also called a liquid matrix) bombarded with accelerated ions or atoms (Cozzolino et al ., ; Melnikov et al ., ; Kosevich et al ., ). The main advantage of this technique is that it allows the study of reactions in bio‐organic systems at various intermediate stages rather than just at the very final stage (Melnikov et al ., ).…”