Applications of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB MS) to organometallic and coordination chemistry

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Abstract This article describes the technique of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FAB MS) and its applications to the analysis of organometallic and coordination complexes. Sections on ion generation and matrices are followed by a Periodic Group‐based review of FAB MS results obtained from Transition Metal and Main Group compounds, organometallic cluster carbonyls and their derivatives, and salts of poly‐oxo‐anions. The literature has been surveyed from 1981 to approximately mid‐1986.