质谱电喷雾离子源中电化学与电晕放电氧化还原反应的研究进展

质谱电喷雾离子化过程中包含两类氧化还原反应:电化学氧化还原和电晕放电氧化还原。一方面,这两类反应干扰谱图解析、降低分析物的检测灵敏度;另一方面,利用氧化还原的特性可发展新型离子源,提高电喷雾离子化过程中难离子化化合物的离子化效率,研究蛋白质相互作用等。该文系统地介绍了国内外对于电化学氧化还原反应和电晕放电氧化还原反应的最近研究进展,主要包括此两类反应的弊端、应用价值,以及控制两类反应的方法。最后总结了区分两种反应的方法,并对电喷雾离子源的发展进行了展望。     

Coupling a Wireless Bipolar Ultramicroelectrode with Nano-electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Insights into the Ultrafast Initial Step of Electrochemical Reactions

We report a new mass spectrometric method for detecting electrogenerated intermediates. This approach is based on simultaneous activation of electrospray ionization and redox reaction on a wireless bipolar ultramicroelectrode, which is fabricated in the tip of a quartz nanopipette. The hollow structure of the ultramicroelectrode permits rapid transferring the transient species from electrode–electrolyte interfaces into the gas phase for mass spectrometric identification on the time scale of microseconds. The long-sought fleeting intermediates including TPrA^.+, whose lifetime in solution is only 200 μs, and catecholamine o-semiquinone radicals, the second-order rate constant of which is typically 10⁹ m ⁻¹ s⁻¹, were successfully identified, helping clarify the previously hidden reaction pathways. Accordingly, our method may have wide applicability in exploring the dynamics of many electrochemical reactions, especially their ultrafast initial steps.     

质谱离子源技术用于电化学反应机理研究的进展

电化学反应是连续的动态变化过程,伴随着瞬时中间体和复杂结构物质的产生,因此,精确而有效地捕捉反应过程中的一系列产物,有助于准确推导其电化学反应机理,进而优化反应条件,提高反应效率.目前,主流的电化学在线监测技术包括光谱法、循环伏安法和线性极化曲线等,这些方法能够胜任反应过程中大部分物质的结构及组成变化检测,然而,为了更加系统和精确地掌握电化学反应过程中所有产物的信息,仍需进一步拓展实时、原位反应监测技术.质谱具有灵敏度高、选择性好、分析速度快、可以结构解析等特点,是一种理想的电化学反应研究手段.近年来,采用质谱法研究电化学反应机理的报道越来越多,尤其是采用以电喷雾离子源(Electrospray Ionization,ESI)及其衍生离子源为代表的常压离子源对电化学反应过程进行实时、原位监测已经成为研究热点.本综述主要介绍了近期发表的电化学-质谱联用技术,详细描述了其针对不同类型电化学反应监测要求而设计和开发的电化学离子源装置.     

Coupling a Wireless Bipolar Ultramicroelectrode with Nano‐electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Insights into the Ultrafast Initial Step of Electrochemical Reactions

We report a new mass spectrometric method for detecting electrogenerated intermediates. This approach is based on simultaneous activation of electrospray ionization and redox reaction on a wireless bipolar ultramicroelectrode, which is fabricated in the tip of a quartz nanopipette. The hollow structure of the ultramicroelectrode permits rapid transferring the transient species from electrode–electrolyte interfaces into the gas phase for mass spectrometric identification on the time scale of microseconds. The long‐sought fleeting intermediates including TPrA^.+, whose lifetime in solution is only 200 μs, and catecholamine o‐semiquinone radicals, the second‐order rate constant of which is typically 10⁹ m ^?1 s^?1, were successfully identified, helping clarify the previously hidden reaction pathways. Accordingly, our method may have wide applicability in exploring the dynamics of many electrochemical reactions, especially their ultrafast initial steps.     

An Easy‐to‐Machine Electrochemical Flow Microreactor: Efficient Synthesis of Isoindolinone and Flow Functionalization

Flow electrochemistry is an efficient methodology to generate radical intermediates. An electrochemical flow microreactor has been designed and manufactured to improve the efficiency of electrochemical flow reactions. With this device only little or no supporting electrolytes are needed, making processes less costly and enabling easier purification. This is demonstrated by the facile synthesis of amidyl radicals used in intramolecular hydroaminations to produce isoindolinones. The combination with inline mass spectrometry facilitates a much easier combination of chemical steps in a single flow process.     

Accelerated Chemical Reactions and Organic Synthesis in Leidenfrost Droplets

Leidenfrost levitated droplets can be used to accelerate chemical reactions in processes that appear similar to reaction acceleration in charged microdroplets produced by electrospray ionization. Reaction acceleration in Leidenfrost droplets is demonstrated for a base‐catalyzed Claisen–Schmidt condensation, hydrazone formation from precharged and neutral ketones, and for the Katritzky pyrylium into pyridinium conversion under various reaction conditions. Comparisons with bulk reactions gave intermediate acceleration factors (2–50). By keeping the volume of the Leidenfrost droplets constant, it was shown that interfacial effects contribute to acceleration; this was confirmed by decreased reaction rates in the presence of a surfactant. The ability to multiplex Leidenfrost microreactors, to extract product into an immiscible solvent during reaction, and to use Leidenfrost droplets as reaction vessels to synthesize milligram quantities of product is also demonstrated.     

Difluoro-and Trifluoromethylation of Electron-Deficient Alkenes in an Electrochemical Microreactor

Electrochemical microreactors, which have electrodes integrated into the flow path, can afford rapid and efficient electrochemical reactions without redox reagents due to the intrinsic properties of short diffusion distances. Taking advantage of electrochemical microreactors, Kolbe electrolysis of di-and trifluoroacetic acid in the presence of various electron-deficient alkenes was performed under constant current at continuous flow at room temperature. As a result, di-and trifluoromethylated compounds were effectively produced in either equal or higher yields than identical reactions under batch conditions previously reported by Uneyamas group. The strategy of using electrochemical microreactor technology is useful for an effective fluoromethylation of alkenes based on Kolbe electrolysis in significantly shortened reaction times.     

Mass Activated Droplet Sorting (MADS) Enables High‐Throughput Screening of Enzymatic Reactions at Nanoliter Scale

Microfluidic droplet sorting enables the high‐throughput screening and selection of water‐in‐oil microreactors at speeds and volumes unparalleled by traditional well‐plate approaches. Most such systems sort using fluorescent reporters on modified substrates or reactions that are rarely industrially relevant. We describe a microfluidic system for high‐throughput sorting of nanoliter droplets based on direct detection using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI‐MS). Droplets are split, one portion is analyzed by ESI‐MS, and the second portion is sorted based on the MS result. Throughput of 0.7 samples s^?1 is achieved with 98 % accuracy using a self‐correcting and adaptive sorting algorithm. We use the system to screen ≈15 000 samples in 6 h and demonstrate its utility by sorting 25 nL droplets containing transaminase expressed in vitro. Label‐free ESI‐MS droplet screening expands the toolbox for droplet detection and recovery, improving the applicability of droplet sorting to protein engineering, drug discovery, and diagnostic workflows.     

Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Study on the Interaction of Cytochrome c with Anionic Lipid Vesicles

The structure and the electron-transfer of cytochrome c binding on the anionic lipid vesicles wrer analyzed by electrochemical and various spectroscopic methods.It was found that upon binding to anionic lipid membrane,the formal potential of cytochrome c shifted 30 mV negtively indicating an easier redox interaction than that in its native state.This is due to the local alteration of the coordination and the heme crevice.The structural perturbation in which a molten globule-like state is formed during binding to anionic lipid vesicles is more important.This study may help to understand the mechanism of the electron-transfer reactions of cytochrome c at the mitochondrial membrane.     

界面衍生化气相色谱法测定葡萄酒中总有机酸

利用离子交换树脂分离、富集葡萄酒中总有机酸并直接在树脂界面上乙酯化,结合气相色谱／质谱法,鉴定并分析了葡萄酒中２１种有机酸。     

The Use of a Microreactor for Rapid Screening of the Reaction Conditions and Investigation of the Photoluminescence Mechanism of Carbon Dots

A microreactor is applied and reported, for the first time, in the field of research of carbon dots (CDs), including rapid screening of the reaction conditions and investigation of the photoluminescence (PL) mechanism. Various carbonaceous precursors and solvents were selected and hundreds of reaction conditions were screened (ca. 15 min on average per condition). Through analyzing the screened conditions, tunable PL emission maxima, from about 330 to 550 nm with respectable PL quantum yields, were achieved. Moreover, the relationship between different developmental stages of the CDs and the PL properties was explored by using the microreactor. The PL emission was observed to be independent of the composition, carbonization extent, and morphology/size of the CDs. This study unambiguously presents that a microreactor could serve as a promising tool for the research of CDs.     

Advances in Electrochemical Decarboxylative Transformation Reactions

Owing to their non-toxic, stable, inexpensive properties, carboxylic acids are considered as environmentally benign alternatives as coupling partners in various organic transformations. Electrochemical mediated decarboxylation of carboxylic acid has emerged as a new and efficient methodology for the construction of carbon-carbon or carbon-heteroatom bonds. Compared with transition-metal catalysis and photoredox catalysis, electro-organic decarboxylative transformations are considered as a green and sustainable protocol due to the absence of chemical oxidants and strong bases. Further, it exhibits good tolerance with various functional groups. In this Minireview, we summarize the recent advances and discoveries on the electrochemical decarboxylative transformations on C−C and C−heteroatoms bond formations.     

Optimization of Glycosylation Reactions in a Microreactor

Glycosylations are notoriously difficult reactions that require extensive optimization regarding the type of anomeric leaving group, solvent, reaction temperature, and reaction time. Described is the use of a silicon‐based microreactor to screen reaction conditions and to scale‐up synthetic procedures. For the first time, glycosyl phosphates were employed in a microreactor. The optimized reaction conditions were successfully transferred to a batch process.     

Functionality,Effectiveness, and Mechanistic Evaluation of a Multicatalyst‐Promoted Reaction Sequence by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

A multicatalytic three‐step reaction consisting of epoxidation, hydrolysis, and enantioselective monoacylation of cyclohexene was studied by using mass spectrometry (MS). The reaction sequence was carried out in a one‐pot reaction using a multicatalyst. All reaction steps were thoroughly analyzed by electrospray ionization (ESI) MS (and MS/MS), as well as high‐resolution MS for structure elucidation. These studies allow us to shed light on the individual mode of action of each catalytic moiety. Thus, we find that under the epoxidation conditions, the catalytically active N‐methyl imidazole for the terminal acylation step is partially deactivated through oxidation. This observation helps to explain the lower efficiency of the catalyst in the last step compared to the monoacylation performed separately. All reactive intermediates and products of the reaction sequence, as well as of the side‐reactions, were monitored, and we present a working mechanism of the reaction.     

Syntheses of Isoquinoline and Substituted Quinolines in Charged Microdroplets

A Pomeranz–Fritsch synthesis of isoquinoline and Friedländer and Combes syntheses of substituted quinolines were conducted in charged microdroplets produced by an electrospray process at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure. In the bulk phase, all of these reactions are known to take a long time ranging from several minutes to a few days and to require very high acid concentrations. In sharp contrast, the present report provides clear evidence that all of these reactions occur on the millisecond timescale in the charged microdroplets without the addition of any external acid. Decreasing the droplet size and increasing the charge of the droplet both strongly contribute to reaction rate acceleration, suggesting that the reaction occurs in a confined environment on the charged surface of the droplet.