AQA A-Level Chemistry 7405
Atomic Structure
Amount of Substance
Bonding
Energetics and Thermodynamics
Kinetics
Chemical Equilibria
Redox and Electrochemistry
Acids and Bases
Periodicity and Group Chemistry
Period 3 Elements and Their Oxides
Transition Metals
Introduction to Organic Chemistry
Hydrocarbons
Halogenoalkanes, Alcohols and Organic Analysis
Carbonyls, Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives
Aromatic Chemistry and Amines
Polymers, Amino Acids, Proteins and DNA
Organic Synthesis, NMR and Chromatography
Halogenoalkanes, Alcohols and Organic Analysis
Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Formula
- 3 things to know
- Papers 2 and 3
Overview
Time of flight mass spectrometry, relative atomic mass from isotopic abundances, the molecular ion peak, and using precise masses to find a molecular formula.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What two quantities relating to isotopes can be determined from a mass spectrum?
What molecular property can mass spectrometry be used to determine?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What information does mass spectrometry provide about isotopes?
Model answer
Mass spectrometry provides accurate information about relative isotopic mass and the relative abundance of isotopes.
- 2
What two quantities relating to isotopes can be determined from a mass spectrum?
Model answer
Relative isotopic mass and relative abundance of isotopes.
- 3
What can mass spectrometry be used to identify?
Model answer
Elements.
- 4
What molecular property can mass spectrometry be used to determine?
Model answer
Relative molecular mass.
- 5
In a time of flight mass spectrometer, what is the first stage that occurs to the sample?
Model answer
Ionisation of the sample to form positive ions.
- 6
After ionisation in a TOF mass spectrometer, what happens to the ions in the acceleration stage?
Model answer
The ions are accelerated to give all ions constant kinetic energy.
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