| Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has been developed for the detection of organic compounds in several critical applications including chemical agent monitoring on battlefields, contraband detecting in mass transportation, and air quality screening on spacecraft. Despite these successful uses of IMS, the foundations of response as seen in ion mobility spectra are poorly understood and are associated with the kinetic and thermodynamics of ion behavior in the IMS drift tube. The goal of this research was generally an elucidation of these behaviors and specifically a first measurement of the kinetics of decomposition of proton bound dimers in the drift region of an ion mobility spectrometer. A series of amines, REt... |
