中药方剂化学成分液质联用分析中标准质谱库的建立和应用

利用电喷雾离子化四级杆飞行时间串联质谱(ESI-Q-TOF)技术,以四物汤类方为例,建立了类方成分的液质联用分析质谱库。利用Masslynx工作站的Chromalynx模块的检索和与质谱库比较的功能,可以快速鉴定色谱图中各个色谱峰。此方法可应用于液质联用检测系统的谱库检测,提高了对类方成分鉴定的效率和可靠性。本质谱库共收录了液质联用条件下57个四物汤类方标准品的质谱信息,包括正负离子模式下各成分的保留时间、准分子离子峰及其碎片离子的精确质量数。该质谱库支持标准NIST谱图检索及比对方法,可自动完成总离子流色谱图中各色谱峰的识别、质谱图提取及鉴定。     

应用反射式飞行时间质谱仪研究氨团簇离子解离动力学

用直射式和反射式飞行时间质谱研究了氨分子团簇体系在 355 nm激光下的多光子电离,得到一系列的质子化团簇离子 (NH3)nH+,同时还观察到超价氨团簇离子 (NH3)n H2＋。在反射式飞行时间质谱研究中观测到质子化氨团簇离子在自由飞行过程中的解离现象,表明在该实验条件下生成的质子化氨团簇离子是一些亚稳态团簇离子。对子离子产率的分析,得到质子化团簇离子解离速率常数,从而可以估计亚稳态团簇离子的寿命。团簇尺寸从 n＝3增大到 20,其寿命从 21 ms减小到 120 μs,大约小了两个数量级。解离速率在 n＝5到 6有一个阶跃式上升,这是由于 5个氨组成的质子化团簇离子(NH3)4NH4+ 的结构相对比较稳定。     

若干气溶胶单粒子化学成分的实时测量

利用激光解吸附电离飞行时间质谱技术获得了若干已知化学成分的气溶胶粒子的飞行时间质谱,分析标识了各类气溶胶粒子的特征离子谱峰,并对一些特征峰的形成机理进行了探讨。在此基础上,对烟花火药以及纸张燃烧产生的烟气气溶胶粒子进行了实时在线测量,通过对质谱图的分析,获得了有关此两类燃烧过程产生的烟气气溶胶单粒子的化学组成信息。     

κ-卡拉胶寡糖的反相离子对-超高效液相色谱-四极杆-飞行时间质谱研究

建立反相离子对-超高效液相色谱(RPIP-UPLC)和电喷雾离子源-四极杆-飞行时间质谱(ESI-Q-TOF-MS)联用技术快速分离鉴定硫酸寡糖的方法.以20 mmol/L庚胺(pH 4)为离子对试剂,25%庚胺甲酸盐纯水溶液(A)和25%庚胺甲酸盐甲醇溶液(B)为梯度洗脱溶剂,κ-卡拉胶寡糖通过BEH C18反相柱分离后,分别在正、负离子模式下进行四极杆-飞行时间质谱分析.结果表明,聚合度为3～45的κ-卡拉胶寡糖在BEH C18柱上得到很好的分离,从每一个色谱峰对应的质谱图中可以准确获得直至27糖的各寡糖结构信息,均为奇数糖,与聚丙烯凝胶电泳结果吻合.所得的寡糖断裂规律对卡拉胶寡糖的快速鉴定和结构解析具有重要意义.     

同位素峰型计算在归属多元素团簇质谱中的应用

介绍了一种通过计算分子的同位素丰度模拟质谱峰型，根据比较质谱峰的位置和形状来帮助归属多元素团簇的飞行时间质谱的方法。这种方法不仅有助于归属完全分辨的低质量离子峰，还能从重叠的质谱峰中确定各个组份的相对含量。     

THF/H~2O二元团簇中“幻数”现象研究

利用分子束、同步辐射光源和飞行时间质谱研究了HF/H~2O二元团簇体系,观察到了一系列组成为(THF)~n·(H~2O)~mH^+(n=2～5,m=0～n-1)离子峰,其中(THF)~n(H~2O)~n~-~2H^+(n=2～5)离子峰强为“幻数”峰。运用从头算(abinitio)分子轨道法,在HF/3-21G基组水平上对(THF)~n(H~2O)~n~-~2H^+(n=2～4)团簇几何构型进行了优化,计算结果表明团簇离子(THF)~n(H~2O)~n~-~2H^+具有较大的稳定性,解释了实验中观察到的“幻数”现象。     

飞行时间二次离子质谱(TOF-SIMS)结合化学衍生法分析杂环新化合物的结构

飞行时间二次离子质谱(TOF-SIMS)分析了难挥发的杂环新化合物咪唑啉硫氰酸盐及其三种衍生物,确认出很强的氢离化及银离化准分子离子峰,通过对各种衍生物谱图的对照分析,确认出较强的含有结构特征的碎片离子峰,并对该化合物在离子轰击下的裂解规律作了分析,支持了对该新化合物结构的鉴定.     

苯二氮卓类新精神活性物质Flubromazolam的快速检测

建立了气相色谱-质谱(GC-MS)和超高效液相色谱-串联四极杆飞行时间质谱(UPLC-Q-TOF MS)技术联合鉴定检材中flubromazolam的方法。未知样品用甲醇和水提取,取上清液,采用GC-MS和UPLC-Q-TOF MS进行分析。经GC-MS检测,保留时间为17.96 min的未知组分的质谱碎片主要特征离子峰有m/z 222,341,343,370,372,111,102,75。经UPLC-QTOF M S检测,保留时间为4.99 min的未知组分的准分子离子峰为m/z 371.0298,碰撞诱导解离(CID)模式下二级质谱主要离子有m/z 343.0114,302.9928,292.1118,263.0982,237.0951,223.0670。经美国缉毒署毒品分析谱库、缴获毒品分析科学工作组(SWGDRUG)分析谱库检索和文献查询获得的信息资料进行比对,确认目标物为flubromazolam。     

4种儿茶素类化合物电喷雾质谱裂解规律的研究

利用离子阱飞行时间质谱仪的高质量精度、高分辨率及多级测定性能, 对儿茶素类化合物(二组对映异构体)质谱裂解进行研究, 并利用氢/氘交换法对裂解方式进行确证. 发现儿茶素对映异构体间具有相同的质谱裂解途径, 多级质谱无明显区别. 在二级质谱中, 表儿茶素/儿茶素(EC/C)丢失的CO₂发生在A环, 丢失的C₂H₂O发生在B环. ^1,4A^-, ^1,3A^-, ^1,2A^-和[M-H-B环]^-4个碎片离子为EC/C特征离子, 通过这4个离子质量数变化, 推测A环上的取代情况. 因表儿茶素没食子酸酯/儿茶素没食子酸酯(ECG/CG)结构上都含有没食子酸取代基, 在二级质谱中均可见m/z169特征峰, 此离子可用于ECG/CG和EC/C区分.     

Meso-四(对烷氧苯基)卟啉金属银配合物的激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱表征

通过激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱对meso-四(对烷氧苯基)卟啉金属银配合物进行了表征.样品溶解在氯仿中,以正离子方式记录谱图,结果发现除了产生目标化合物分子离子峰外,没有任何碎片峰.激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱是表征这种meso-四(对烷氧苯基)卟啉金属银配合物有效的方法.     

A quantitative model of ultraviolet matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization

A quantitative model of primary ionization in ultraviolet matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (UV-MALDI) is presented. It includes not only photochemical processes such as exciton pooling, but also the effects of the desorption event. The interplay of these two is found to be a crucial aspect of the MALDI process. The desorbing plume is modeled as an adiabatic expansion with entrained clusters. The parameters in the model are defined as much as possible via experiment or by analogy with known effects. The model was applied to the matrix 2,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid and found to reproduce the fluence dependence of the fluorescence yield and key features of the picosecond two-pulse ion generation efficiency curves. In addition, the model correctly predicts a fluence rather than irradiance threshold, the magnitude of the threshold, the magnitude of the ion yield, laser wavelength effects, plume temperatures, plume expansion velocities and the spot size effect.     

Laser flash photolysis study of the photocatalytic step of the photo-fenton reaction in saline solution

The photo-Fenton reaction (Fe2+/Fe3+, H2O2, UV light) is strongly inhibited by high concentrations of added chloride ion. In this work, the effect of added chloride ion on the photocatalytic step that converts Fe(III) back to Fe(II) is studied by nanosecond laser flash photolysis over a wide range of pH (1.0-3.3) and concentrations of Fe(III) (0.1-1.0 mM) and chloride ion (0.05-0.75 M). An explicit mechanistic model based on the preferential formation of the less-reactive Cl2*- radical anion via two routes (competitive photolysis of the iron(III)-chloride complex to chlorine atoms instead of the desired hydroxyl radical and pH-dependent scavenging of the hydroxyl radical by chloride ion) is proposed. This model, which fits the laser flash photolysis data for the production and decay of Cl2*- over the entire range of conditions investigated, suggests that inhibition of the photocatalytic step of the photo-Fenton process in the presence of chloride ion can be circumvented by maintaining the pH of the medium at or slightly above 3.0 throughout the reaction.     

Pulsed fluorescence measurements of trapped molecular ions with zero background detection

Sensitive methods have been developed to measure laser-induced fluorescence from trapped ions by reducing the detection of background scattering to zero levels during the laser excitation pulse. The laser beam diameter has been reduced to approximately 150 microm to eliminate scattering on trap apertures and the resulting laser-ion interaction is limited to a volume of approximately 10(-5) cm which is approximately 0.03-0.15 of the total ion cloud volume depending on experimental conditions. The detection optics collected fluorescence only from within the solid angle defined by laser-ion interaction volume. Rhodamine 640 and Alexa Fluor 350 ions, commonly used as fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) fluorophores, were generated in the gas phase by using electrospray ionization and injected into a radiofrequency Paul trap where they were stored and exposed to Nd:YAG laser pulses at 532 and 355 nm for times up to 10 m. Fluorescence emitted by these ions was investigated for several trap q(z) values and ion cloud temperatures. Analysis of photon statistics indicated an average of approximately 10 photons were incident on the PMT detector per 15 ns pulse for approximately 10(3) trapped ions in the interaction volume. Fluorescence measurements displayed a dependence on trapped ion number which were consistent with calculations of the space charge limited ion density. To investigate the quantitative capability of these fluorescence techniques, the laser-induced fragmentation of trapped Alexa Fluor 350 ions was measured and compared with a rate equation model of the dynamics. Decay of the fluorescence signal as well as the parent ion number compared closely with quantitative predictions of the photofragmentation model.     

Phenomenological models for matrix-assisted laser desorption ion yields near the threshold fluence

Phenomenological models were proposed to explain the experimentally observed dependence of protein ion yields with laser fluence in matrix-assisted laser desorption. Assuming that the illuminating laser had a Gaussian intensity profile at the sample being examined, it was possible to fit the experimental points with a model that only assumes a fluence threshold for ion production. No additional dependence of protein ion yield on illuminating fluence above the threshold value was necessary to explain the data.     

Charge assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry of droplets

We propose and evaluate a new mechanism to account for analyte ion signal enhancement in ultraviolet-laser desorption mass spectrometry of droplets in the presence of corona ions. Our new insights are based on timing control of corona ion production, laser desorption, and peptide ion extraction achieved by a novel pulsed corona apparatus. We demonstrate that droplet charging rather than gas-phase ion-neutral reactions is the major contributor to analyte ion generation from an electrically isolated droplet. Implications of the new mechanism, termed charge assisted laser desorption/ionization (CALDI), are discussed and contrasted with those of the laser desorption atmospheric pressure chemical ionization method (LD-APCI). It is also demonstrated that analyte ion generation in CALDI occurs with external electric fields about one order of magnitude lower than those needed for atmospheric pressure matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization or electrospray ionization of droplets.     

Competing ion decomposition channels in matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization

We gauged the internal energy transfer for two dissociative ion decomposition channels in matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) using the benzyltriphenylphosphonium (BTP) thermometer ion [PhCH 2PPh 3] (+). Common MALDI matrixes [alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA), 3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (sinapinic acid, SA), and 2,5-dihydroxycinnamic acid (DHB)] were studied with nitrogen laser (4 ns pulse length) and mode-locked 3 x omega Nd:YAG laser (22 ps pulse length) excitation. Despite the higher fluence required to initiate fragmentation, BTP ions indicated lower internal energy transfer with the picosecond laser in all three matrixes. These differences can be rationalized in terms of phase explosion induced by the nanosecond laser vs a stress-confinement-driven desorption mechanism for the picosecond laser. For the two ion production channels of the BTP thermometer ion, breaking a single bond can result in the formation of benzyl/tropylium ions, F1, or triphenylphosphine ions, F2. In SA and DHB, as well as in CHCA at low fluence levels, the efficiency of these channels (expressed by the branching ratio I F1/ I F2) is moderately in favor of producing tropylium ions, 1 < I F1/ I F2 < 6. As the laser fluence is increased, for CHCA, there is a dramatic shift in favor of the tropylium ion production, with I F1/ I F2 approximately 30 for the nanosecond and the picosecond laser, respectively. This change is correlated with the sudden increase in the BTP internal energies in CHCA in the same laser fluence range. The large changes observed in internal energy deposition for CHCA with laser fluence can account for its ability to induce fragmentation in peptides more readily than SA and DHB.     

MALDI ionization mechanisms investigated by comparison of isomers of dihydroxybenzoic acid

Matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) ion formation mechanisms were investigated by comparison of isomers of dihydroxybenzoic acid (DHB). These exhibit substantially different MALDI performance, the basis for which was not previously understood. Luminescence decay curves are used here to estimate excited electronic state properties relevant for the coupled chemical and physical dynamics (CPCD) model. With these estimates, the CPCD predictions for relative total ion and analyte ion yields are in good agreement with the data for the DHB isomers. Predictions of a thermal equilibrium model were also compared and found to be incompatible with the data. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Deflection of laser-produced ions in laser-induced thermal-desorption/fourier-transform mass spectrometry for surface analysis

A method for deflecting ions, such as K⁺, produced outside a Fourier-transform mass spectrometer cell during laser-induced thermal desorption, is described. This technique has been shown to deflect laser-generated K and Ti ions from two Ti foil samples (biomedical implant model surfaces), yielding mass spectra of coadsorbed organic species. Further studies characterizing the laser desorption/deflection parameters have shown that ion deflection improves with higher deflection voltages and greater sample to Fourier-transform mass spectrometry cell separation. Higher laser power densities resulted in greater surface ion production; hence higher deflection voltages were necessary. A 6% increase in laser power necessitated a fourfold increase in deflection voltage for the Ti sample.     

Radical cation formation in characterization of novel C3-symmetric disks and their precursors by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Four C3-symmetrical tris(dipeptide) disks and their precursors were characterized using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI TOF MS). The C3-symmetrical disks were based on a benzene-1,3,5-triscarboxamide core extended by oligopeptides with trialkoxyanilide tails. The results indicate that MALDI TOF MS is a powerful and straightforward analytical technique for characterizing C3-symmetrical disks and their precursors. Clear (pseudo)-molecular ion peaks could readily be identified. It is remarkable that strong radical ion signals were observed for all the compounds, including the anilines that were expected to be protonated prior to laser irradiation using acidic MALDI matrixes. Possible mechanisms for radical ion formation were investigated with the employment of radical scavengers, with various matrixes and with direct laser desorption/ionization (LDI). Most likely the radicals are formed by losing one electron from the aniline nitrogen and stabilized by conjugation through the phenyl ring. It appears that direct photo/thermal ionization of analytes is an important route for the radical ion formation of the compounds with trialkoxy aniline/anilide groups.