"Mass spectrometry is one of the many powerful instrumental techniques that are available to the inorganic, coordination or organometallic chemist. This textbook focuses on bringing the subject up to date for those synthetic chemists who use mass spectrometry as an afterthought or as a very minor component of their toolkit of characterisation techniques." — BOOK JACKET. Content: 1. Fundamentals — 2. Mass analysers — 3. Ionisation techniques — 4. The ESI MS behaviour of simple inorganic compounds — 5. The ESI MS behaviour of coordination complexes — 6. The ESI MS behaviour of main group organometallic compounds — 7. The ESI MS behaviour of transition metal and lanthanide organometallic compounds — 8. A selection of special topics — App. 1. Naturally occurring isotopes — App. 2. Periodic table of the elements. Abstract: "Mass spectrometry is one of the many powerful instrumental techniques that are available to the inorganic, coordination or organometallic chemist. This textbook focuses on bringing the subject up to date for those synthetic chemists who use mass spectrometry as an afterthought or as a very minor component of their toolkit of characterisation techniques." — BOOK JACKET