Mass Spectrometry of Synthetic Polymers

摘要

The heart of this review is to give a compact overview of the literature on mass spectrometry (MS) of polymers published in the time period from 2008 to 2009. Identical to the review from 2008, the citations were drawn from SciFinder (January 25, 2010) using the search terms "poly" and "mass spectrometry" with restrictions to review and journal contributions in the English language. Refined searches in Web of Science were also used again. In these two years more than 750 relevant papers and 5 reviews were published accentuating the importance of MS for polymer analysis. We selected references as an attempt to cover all areas as diverse as "emerging technologies" to "applications". Decisions are subjective and may not always represent the ideal choice. Additionally, the comprehensiveness and complexity of the field also challenges a clear classification to a single category in some cases but repetition is not a valuable choice.