Preferred Label : daughter ion;
Detailed label : daughter ion in mass spectrometry;
IUPAC definition : An electrically charged product of reaction of a particular parent ion. In general
such ions have a direct relationship to a particular precursor ion and indeed may
relate to a unique state of the precursor ion. The reaction need not necessarily involve
fragmentation. It could, for example, involve a change in the number of charges carried.
Thus, all fragment ions are daughter ions, but not all daughter ions are necessarily
fragment ions.;
Origin ID : D01524;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
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An electrically charged product of reaction of a particular parent ion. In general
such ions have a direct relationship to a particular precursor ion and indeed may
relate to a unique state of the precursor ion. The reaction need not necessarily involve
fragmentation. It could, for example, involve a change in the number of charges carried.
Thus, all fragment ions are daughter ions, but not all daughter ions are necessarily
fragment ions.
