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ELSEVIER International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 197 (2000) iii—v CONTENTS Review Inorganic mass spectrometric methods for trace, ultratrace, isotope, and surface analysis J. Sabine Becker and Hans-Joachim Dietze (Juelich, Germany) Review Theoretical determination of absolute electron-impact ionization cross sections of molecules H. Deutsch (Greifswald, Germany), K. Becker (Hoboken, NJ, USA), S. Matt, and T.D. Mark (Innsbruck, Austria) Generation of metal-—ligand cluster ion beams through pulsed discharge ionization and ablation Ansgar Brock, David L. Cedefio, and Carlos Manzanares I. (Waco, TX, USA) Precise Os isotope ratio and Re—Os isotope dilution measurements down to the picogram level using multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry Ronny Schoenberg, Thomas F. Ndgler, and Jan D. Kramers (Bern, Switzerland) Some reactions and thermochemistry of NbO,: oxidation and reduction, hydrogen bond strength, and catalytic activation of primary alcohols P. Jackson, K.J. Fisher, and G.D. Willett (Sydney, NSW, Australia) Generation and characterization of ionic and neutral dihydroxy boron B(OH); +”/0 si n the gas phase Ragampeta Srinivas, Shetty Vivekananda (Hyderabad, India), Stephen J. Blanksby (Adelaide, Australia), Detlef Schréder, Helmut Schwarz (Berlin, Germany), Lorne M. Fell, and Johan K. Terlouw (Ontario, Canada) Peak structure with a quadrupole mass filter operated in the third stability region Zhaohui Du, D.J. Douglas (British Columbia, Canada), Tatyana Glebova, and N.V. Konenkov (Ryazan, Russia) Now Available On & http://ChemWeb.com The World Wide Ciub for the Chemical Community http://chemweb.com/gateways/elsevier.htm! Abstracted/Contents in: Chem. Abstr.; Curr. Contents, Phys. Chem. Earth Sci.; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; INSPEC; Mass Spectrom. Bull.; PASCAL/CNRS 3806(20000229) 197: 131 -M (CONTENTS CONTINUED) Comparison of high-field ion mobility obtained from drift tubes and a FAIMS apparatus Larry A. Viehland (St. Louis, MO, USA), Roger Guevremont (Ottawa, ON, Canada), Randy W. Purves (Ottawa, ON, Canada), and David A. Barnett (Ottawa, ON, Canada) Preparation of two synthetic isotope mixtures for the calibration of isotope amount ratio measurements of sulfur T. Ding (Beijing, People’s Republic of China), S. Valkiers, H. Kipphardt, C. Quetel, P. De Biévre, P.D.P. Taylor (Geel, Belgium), and R. Gonfiantini (Pisa, Italy) Influence of metal ion and coordination geometry on the gas phase dissociation and stereochemical differentiation of N-glycosides Sara P. Gaucher and Julie A. Leary (Berkeley, CA, USA) Secondary ion emission from keV energy atomic and polyatomic projectile impacts on sodium iodate M.J. Van Stipdonk, V. Santiago, E.A. Schweikert, C.C. Chusuei, and D.W. Goodman (College Station, TX, USA) Separation of protein conformers using electrospray-high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry Randy W. Purves (Concord, Canada), David A. Barnett, and Roger Guevremont (Ottawa, Canada) Perfect space and time focusing ion optics for multiturn time of flight mass spectrometers Morio Ishihara, Michisato Toyoda, and Takekiyo Matsuo (Osaka, Japan) High precision measurement of iron isotopes by plasma source mass spectrometry N.S. Belshaw, X.K. Zhu, Y. Guo, and R.K. O’Nions (Oxford, UK) Single photon and femtosecond multiphoton ionisation of the dipeptide valyl-valine N.P. Lockyer and J.C. Vickerman (Manchester, UK) Intermolecular proton transfer from visible laser light-excited indene radical cations to reference bases in the gas phase F.H.W. van Amerom, D. van Duijn (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), W.J. van der Hart (Leiden, The Netherlands), and N.M.M. Nibbering (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) .0.........cccccccccccccccccssseeeeeeeeees 211 Computational and experimental studies of chemical ionization mass spectrometric detection techniques for atmospherically relevant peroxides Benjamin M. Messer, David E. Stielstra, Christopher D. Cappa, Kurtis W. Scholtens, and Matthew J. Elrod (Holland, MI, USA) Electron impact ionization energies D.L. Hildenbrand (Menlo Park, CA, USA) Direct ab initio dynamics study of the photoelectron detachment processes of the H,O- anion Manabu Igarashi and Hiroto Tachikawa (Sapporo, Japan) (CONTENTS CONTINUED) Thermal ionization mass spectrometry of molybdenum isotopes Michael E. Wieser and John R. De Laeter (Perth, Western Australia) Frequency perturbation in nonlinear Paul traps: a simulation study of the effect of geometric aberration, space charge, dipolar excitation, and damping on ion axial secular frequency S. Sevugarajan and A.G. Menon (Bangalore, India) Comment Comment on: “‘Natural variations detected in the isotopic composition of copper: possible applications to archaeology and geochemistry” [N.H. Gale, A.P. Woodhead, Z.A. Stos-Gale, A. Walder, I. Bowen, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 184 (1999) 1] I. Platzner (Beer-Sheva, Israel) Erratum Erratum to “A comparison of three mass spectrometric methods for the determination of dioxins/furans” [Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 194 (2000) 235-246] Raymond E. March, Maurizio Splendore (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), Eric J. Reiner, Roger S. Mercer (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Jeffry B. Plomley (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada), David S. Waddell, and Karen A. MacPherson (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Author Index Subject Index The table of contents of The International Journal of Mass Spectrometry is included in ESTOC—Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service, which can be accessed on the World Wide Web at the following URLs: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/estoc or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/estoc For more information see URL L[JMSP Home Page: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/ijmsip