Host: Division of Organic Chemistry, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
A new type of photocleavable molecular devices has been developed for laser ionization TOF-Mass spectrometry. The presented molecules contain an ether bond which is photo cleavable. Highly selective photo cleavage of the ether bond was observed under standard laser ionization condition by negative mode TOF-Mass spectrometry. The observed result indicates that chemically robust ether bond can be used as photocleavable devices for direct Mass detection from solid support.