Handling considerations for the mass spectrometry of reactive organometallic compounds By Anuj Joshi, Charles Killeen, Tanner Thiessen, Harmen S. Zijlstra and J. Scott McIndoe

The Special Feature this month comes from J. Scott McIndoe and colleagues, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It serves as a practical guide for the mass spectrometric analysis of reactive organometallic compounds, including air and moisture sensitive compounds. Although this Special Feature is focused exclusively on organometallic compounds, the approaches described here are more generally applicable to reactive compounds of any type. McIndoe and colleagues include numerous practical examples in their review, and they discuss mass spectrometric approaches applicable to a range of sample states (i.e., gas, liquid and solid samples), a range of sample introduction methods and various ionization techniques.