5 Mass Spectrometry ELSEVIER International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 208 (2001) iii-iv CONTENTS Accelerated communication Electron impact ionization of the TiCl, (x = 1 — 3) free radicals V. Tarnovsky (Hoboken, NJ, USA), R. Basner, M. Schmidt (Greifswald, Germany), and K. Becker (Hoboken, NJ, USA) Structures and energies of C,S* (1 <n S 16) and C,S” (9 Sn S 16) clusters Zichao Tang and Joseph J. BelBruno (Hanover, NH, USA) Quadrupole mass filter operation with auxiliary quadrupolar excitation: theory and experiment N.V. Konenkov (Ryazan, Russia),), L.M. Cousins, V.I. Baranov (Concord, Ontario, Canada), and M. Yu. Sudakov (Ryazan, Russia) Sputtering of a Au surface covered with large spherical clusters Roly Kissel and Herbert M. Urbassek (Kaiserslautern, Germany) .........0scccssevessseessssscssesssceassonsecsaansssscseescsasacesese 29 Ag ion formation mechanisms in molten glass ion emitters G.F. Kessinger, T. Huett, and J.E. Delmore (Idaho Falls, ID, USA) Characterization of ammonia phosphorus oxide H,NPO* ions and their neutral counterparts by mass spectrometry and computational chemistry S. Vivekananda, P. Raghunath, K. Bhanuprakash, and R. Srinivas (Hyderabad, India) Gas-phase ion mobility studies of constitutional isomeric hydrocarbons using different ionization techniques Helko Borsdorf (Leipzig, Germany) and Mathias Rudolph (Chemnitz, Germany) Pulsed injection of ions into the CRESU experiment Thomas Speck, Toufik I. Mostefaoui, Daniel Travers, and Bertrand R. Rowe (Rennes, MUNC ATOMG EN e oda ata vaca gaa RES cas sce ecad CTS VEN KS pkSR EIGEN = vseat aaa es Soh Mies sden Tae sananiant fsNaveed (asgesestvas cenisssessadisaadlsctéiessassigassadsekianaienes 73 Now Available On ¢ http://ChemWeb. com The World Wide Club for the Chemical Community http://chemweb.com/gateways/elsevier.htmi Abstracted/Contents in: Chem. Abstr.; Curr. Contents, Phys. Chem. Earth Sci.; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; INSPEC; Mass Spectrom. Bull.; PASCAL/CNRS 20010718)208: 1/3*; 1-6 (CONTENTS CONTINUED) Experimental investigation of the formation of N atoms in N*-Ne, Kr, and Xe collisions P.G. Reyes (UAEMex, México), F. Castillo (UNAM D.F. México), and H. Martinez (Morelos, México) High-precision measurement of magnesium isotopes by multiple-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry Albert Galy, Nick S. Belshaw, Ludwik Halicz, and R. Keith O’Nions (Oxford, UK) Product channeling in the reactions of CS* (X 7=*) with simple carboxylic acids and esters Brian K. Decker, Nigel G. Adams, and Lucia M. Babcock (Athens, GA, USA) Absolute isotopic composition and atomic weight of zinc Tsing-Lien Chang, Mo-Tian Zhao, Wen-Jun Li, Jun Wang, and Qiu-Yu Qian (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) Ab initio calculations on the isomerization of C,H, radical cations W.J. van der Hart (Leiden, The Netherlands) Comparisons of electron impact ionization and ion chemistries of CF,Br and CF,I C.Q. Jiao (Dayton, OH, USA), B. Ganguly, C.A. DeJoseph Jr., and A. Garscadden (Fairborn, OH, USA) Static secondary ionization mass spectrometry and mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (MS?) characterization of the chemical warfare agent HD on soil particle surfaces G.L. Gresham, G.S. Groenewold, A.D. Appelhans, J.E. Olson, M.T. Benson (Idaho Falls, ID, USA), M.T. Jeffery, B. Rowland, and M.A. Weibel (Dugway Proving Ground, UT, USA) Behavior of excited C,H,O* cations: a He-Ia photoelectron-photoion coincidence study of propanal Josef Dannacher and Jean-Pierre Stadelmann (Basel, Switzerland) Electron impact ionization of CHF, I. Iga, Ivana P. Sanches, S.K. Srivastava, and Michael Mangan (San Carlos, Brazil) Characterization of the ion-sampling pinhole interface for an ion mobility spectrometer/ mass spectrometer system Glenn E. Spangler (Pikesville, MD, USA) Ultratrace and isotopic analysis of long-lived radionuclides by double-focusing sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using direct liquid sample introduction John A. McLean, J. Sabine Becker, Sergei F. Boulyga, Hans-Joachim Dietze (Jiilich, Germany), and Akbar Montaser (Washington, D.C., USA) Ion discrimination during ion accumulation in a quadrupole interface external to a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer Mikhail E. Belov, Evgenii N. Nikolaev, Richard Harkewicz, Christophe D. Masselon, Kim Alving, and Richard D. Smith (Richland, WA, USA) (CONTENTS CONTINUED) Isotopic ratio measurements by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry A.J. Fahey and S. Messenger (Gaithersburg, MD, USA) Author index IN iach einntainscinbssuiccair casa tasks A delicate aka aa aie headed at cada eae baaandaadiciheeaagaate 245 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 IJMSP Home Page: http://www.elsevier.ni/locate/ijmsip