The emission of sputtered ions from isoleucine and leucine specimens under bombardment by 10 keV argon gas-cluster ions Ar1000+ was investigated by orthogonal time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, in an attempt to examine the possibility of discriminating these amino acids by means of specific differences in their mass spectra. Apart from of the protonated molecular ions (M+H)+ a prolific flux of singly charged and doubly charged molecular cluster ions, (Mn+H)+ (1 ≤ n ≤ 15) and (Mn+2H)2+ (8 ≤ n ≤ 29) was observed. The distributions of the cluster yields Yn as a function of their size n were found to be very similar for both amino acids. In addition, the fraction of emitted fragment and other ion species is typically low, and no distinct differences were detected for isoleucine and leucine. Therefore, the present data seem to indicate that a discrimination of isoleucine and leucine via mass spectrometric means is not possible.

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