Direct analysis of saturated hydrocarbons using glow discharge plasma ionization source for mass spectrometry
Direct analysis of saturated hydrocarbons using glow discharge plasma ionization source for mass spectrometry
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DOI:
10.1016/j.talanta.2019.05.115
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发表时间:
2019-11-01
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6.1
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Wagatsuma, Kazuaki
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作者:
Nunome, Yoko;Kodama, Kenji;Wagatsuma, Kazuaki
The ionization source based on glow discharge plasma using ambient air is driven by a pulsed direct-current voltage for soft plasma ionization (SPI). The novelty of this work is that molecular ions [M+ 13](+) related to the analyte species (M), which may be formed by numerous oxidation, can be dominantly detected as a base peak with little or no fragmentation of them in an air plasma at a pressure of several kPa. The unique ion [M+ 13](+) was assigned to the oxidation product, [M+ O- 3H](+), which was confirmed as a deuterated ion [M+ O- 3D](+) ([M+ 10](+)) by using a deuterated solvent. The ionization reactions were suggested that the product ion [M+ O- 311](+) may arise from hydride abstraction reaction of M with O-2(+), dehydrogenation reaction of [M- H](+). and subsequently oxidation reaction of [M- 3F1](+) with O-3. n-Alkane mixtures was also measured to evaluate the intermolecular interaction in this system. The limits of detection (LOD) were in the range of 0.126-1.68 ppmv and the relative standard deviation (RSD) for repeatability was approximately 10.0% at the lowest concentration. To our knowledge, this is the first report demonstrating that the spectrum pattern of saturated hydrocarbons could be directly determined without any complicated fragmentation.