Basic Explanation for Collisions in Mass Spectrometry -- Super-excited States of Molecules -- Fundamental Aspects of Photoionization of Molecules -- Chemical Reaction by Core Electron Excitation -- Ion Mobility Spectrometry -- Gas Phase Ion Molecule Reactions -- Fundamentals of Electrospray -- Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry -- Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry -- Theory of Ion Fragmentation.

Most research and all publications in mass spectrometry address either applications or practical questions of procedure. This book, in contrast, discusses   the fundamentals of mass spectrometry. Since these basics (physics, chemistry, kinetics, and thermodynamics) were worked out in the 20th century, they are rarely addressed nowadays and young scientists have no opportunity to learn them. This book reviews a number of useful methods in mass spectrometry and explains not only the details of the methods but the theoretical underpinning.