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Translational energy release measurments on metastable ions are used in the comparison of the structures of isomeric ions. Metastable ions, m2+, formed from m1+ ions as the result of a high energy process in the ion source are compared with isomeric metastable ions formed as daughters from fragmentation of metastable m1+ ions in a field. In the case of o‐, m‐ and p‐nitrophenol the structure of the [C5H5O]+ ions formed from [C6H5O]+ ions by these two independent methods is different as verified by comparison of the behaviour of [C5H5O]+ ions formed from several other compounds.
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Porter et al. (1982) studied this question.
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