Silver sulfonates as mass standards in field desorption mass spectrometry

Abstract

Two commercially available compounds, silver methanesulfonate and silver trifluoromethanesulfonate, and a mixture of these compounds are useful as mass standards in field desorption mass spectrometry, offering certain advantages over compounds and methods currently being used for this purpose. These mass standards can be utilized in calibrating or confirming the accuracy of a data system or a mass marker calibration and for peak matching up to a mass of about 1440. ~~