Desmond Kaplan   Go to my home page

Undergraduate: Towson University, B.S. Chemistry
e-mail: dakaplan@unc.edu
Year Started @ UNC: 2001

Address:

CB #3290, Venable Hall

Department of Chemistry

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC 27599

Phone:

Lab: (919)962-7525

FAX: (919)962-2388

Projects:

• Design, Construction, and Fundamental Characterization of a Compensated Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer System
• Development and optimization of stable rf circuitry for a Compensated Cylindical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer System
• Exploration of the effects of higher order fields in rf trapping instruments

Refereed Journal Publications:

• David N. Heller,* Desmond A. Kaplan, Nathan G. Rummel, and Jurgen von Bredow ; Identification of Cephapirin Metabolites and Degradants in Bovine Milk by Electrospray Ionization-Ion Trap Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry; 2000; 48(12); 6030-6035

Presentations:

• Desmond A. Kaplan, David Larkin, AFM/STM studies of  the Undepotential Deposition process of lead atoms on to silver electrode surfaces, Raspet Fellowship presented at Towson University October 2000.



• Desmond A. Kaplan, Ryan M. Danell, Kenneth L. Ray, Gary L. Glish, Development and Performance of an Electrically Tunable Compensated Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer, presented at the 116^th North Carolina-ACS Sectional Conference, North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics, April 2002.

• Desmond A. Kaplan, Ryan M. Danell, Kenneth L. Ray, Gary L. Glish, Development and Performance of an Electrically Tunable Compensated Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer, presented at the 50^th Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Orlando, FL, June 2002.
  
  
• Desmond A. Kaplan and Gary L. Glish, Development and Performance of Stable RF Circuitry for a Compensated Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer, presented at the 117^th North Carolina-ACS Sectional Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2003.
  
  
• Desmond A. Kaplan and Gary L. Glish, Development and Performance of Stable RF Circuitry for a Compensated Cylindrical Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer, presented at the 51^st Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Montreal, Quebec Canada , June 2003.