电喷雾电离质谱在富勒烯化学中的应用进展

电喷才电离质谱（ＥＳＩ－ＭＳ）是本世纪发展的一种非常重要的质谱，具有软电离、无碎片的特点，可用于分析检测非挥发性的，极性的、热不稳定的化合物，在富勒烯化学研究中起了重要作用。本文对ＥＳＩ－ＭＳ在富勒烯化学中的应用进展作一概要评述。     

电喷雾解吸电离质谱研究基体中直接黑与溶剂的相互作用

采用电喷雾解吸电离质谱法(DESI-MS)研究了基体中酸性染料直接黑与水的相互作用,发现水与直接黑能够形成一系列比较稳定的水合物(M+nH2O,n=0～7),其中稳定性最大的水合物为n=3或4;在相同条件下,直接黑还能够与甲醇形成类似的簇合物(M+nCH3OH,n=0～7),其中最稳定的甲醇化物为n=3.实验表明在无需样品预处理的前提下,DESI-MS能够直接用于表面复杂基体内分子相互作用的研究,为复杂表面中物质的相互作用的深入研究提供了一种新方法.     

有机锡化合物的电喷雾电离质谱

报道了一系列有机锡ＲＲＰ（Ｓ）ＳＳｎ（Ｃｙ）３化合物的电喷雾电离质谱（ＥＳＩ－ＭＳ）及碰撞诱导解离质谱（ＣＩＤ－ＭＳ）,总结了其谱图特征,讨论了其碎裂机理,为该类化合物的鉴定提供了依据。     

中性富勒烯分子的直接电喷雾质谱分析

电喷雾电离是新近发展的一种质谱技术, 适用于分析在溶液中呈离子状态的物质, 具有无碎片的特点。本文根据富勒烯分子的电子亲和性能, 将富勒烯混合物的甲苯溶液直接进行电喷雾质谱分析, 检出了C60, C70, C76, C80, C82, C84, C86,C88, C90, C92, C94和C96等的负离子峰。并用萘钾作还原剂,将富勒烯混合物预先还原, 制得富勒烯负离子溶液后再作电喷雾质谱分析, 得到相同的结果。表明各类富勒烯分子在电喷雾过程中俘获电子的能力与被萘钾还原的能力相一致。     

芹菜素的电喷雾萃取电离串联质谱

采用实验室自制的电喷雾萃取电离源(EESI),结合串联质谱(MSn)技术,对芹菜素这一典型的黄酮类活性化合物的质谱行为进行了研究。实验表明,在正、负离子检测模式下,该化合物均能得到较好的EESI-MS信号,且在负离子检测模式下灵敏度更高。通过对比芹菜素的EESI-MS和电喷雾电离质谱(ESI-MS)谱图发现,芹菜素在EESI-MS和ESI-MS中的裂解规律相似,但是EESI是一种比ESI更软的电离模式。根据对芹菜素EESI-MS特征碎片离子的分析,提出了芹菜素在EESI-MS中裂解的基本规律,为EESI-MS技术用于分析、鉴定复杂基质中痕量芹菜素奠定了理论和实验基础。     

C60大量、快速分离和电喷雾电离质谱检测

本文用配合沉淀和活性炭吸附相结合的方法，从高级富勒烯含量较高的混合物中，大量、快速分离Ｃ６０，并用电喷雾电离质谱对分离产物进行检测     

电喷雾解吸电离质谱快速测定吴茱萸中生物碱

生物碱是许多中草药的活性有效成分,其含量的多少和种类的差异是导致中草药品质差异的重要因素.本文利用电喷雾解吸电离质谱(DESI-MS)能够在不需要样品预处理的前提下进行复杂基体样品分析的特点,采用酸性甲醇-水混合溶液作为喷雾试剂,在优化了的实验条件下快速获得了吴茱萸的DESI-MS指纹谱图,然后利用串联质谱对其中有重要活性的5种生物碱进行了结构鉴定.实验表明,基于固体表面解吸电离质谱分析的方法不需要萃取-分离手续,单个样品测定时间不超过1.5 min,大幅度提高了分析速度,有望在药品品质的在线监测和工艺过程控制中发挥重要作用.     

有机盐类化合物醋酸钠的电喷雾质谱研究

利用电喷雾质谱技术研究了有机盐类化合物醋酸钠(NaAc)的特征质谱行为,实验结果表明,在全扫描电喷雾正负离子谱中都出现了质量数相差82的质谱峰簇．这与醋酸钠的相对分子质量相一致,正负质谱峰簇分别对应于簇合物离子Na^ (NaAc)n和Ac^-(NaAc)m:簇合物离子的多级串联质谱进一步证明了簇合物离子的存在。该结果为类似结构的盐类化合物的表征提供了一种新的质谱证据。     

芦笋中化学成分的内部萃取电喷雾电离质谱检测

选择芦笋(Asparagus Officinalis L)新鲜茎块和两种干燥茎块为代表性植物组织样品,建立了一种直接检测芦笋中多种化学成分的内部萃取电喷雾电离质谱(iEESI-MS)分析方法。在正离子检测模式下,选择甲醇(CH₃OH)作萃取溶剂,在无需样品预处理的条件下对芦笋组织样品进行直接质谱分析,获得了组织样品在m/z 50~1000范围内的化学指纹谱图,并通过目标离子的碰撞诱导解离(CID)实验,鉴定了对药物和自然产品研发具有重要意义的糖类、氨基酸、生物碱以及芦丁等多种代表性的营养成分。 本方法具有无需样品预处理、样品耗量少、操作简便、分析速度快(单个样品的分析时间少于1 min)等优点,为食源性植物组织样品的快速分析提供了一种质谱分析新方法。     

牛油果中化学成分的内部萃取电喷雾电离质谱检测

采用内部萃取电喷雾电离质谱(iEESI-MS)技术,以甲醇作为萃取溶剂,无需样品预处理,在优化条件下分别对牛油果果肉和果皮中化学成分进行快速直接鉴定,并考察了不同成熟度牛油果果肉中化学成分的差异.实验结果表明,在负离子检测模式下,从果肉中鉴定出棕榈酸、硬脂酸、棕榈油酸、油酸和亚麻酸等12种有效营养成分,从果皮中鉴定出儿茶素、绿原酸等11种营养成分.利用正交偏最小二乘判别分析法(OPLS-DA)对不同成熟度的牛油果果肉的iEESI-MS指纹谱图数据进行分析发现,此方法能够有效判别不同成熟程度的牛油果且5种化学成分差异显著.本方法无需样品预处理、样品耗量少、分析速度快(单个样品检测时间小于1 min)且操作简便,为植物有效营养成分和医用价值的开发提供了一种快速质谱分析新方法.     

Electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry in high-throughput screening of homogeneous catalysts

The frontispiece shows an illustration by John Tenniel and an excerpt from the 1865 edition of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". Because everything in Wonderland runs counter to logic, the Queen of Hearts declares in Alice's trial "Sentence first-verdict afterwards". High-throughput screening of catalysts, as it is conventionally practiced, does "Synthesis first-screening afterwards" which, as is argued in this review, also backwards. Given the particular constraints present in organometallic complexes, it is more efficient to develop a selective synthesis only when it has already been determined that a structure is likely to be better. The consequence is that screening methods must be able to handle ill-defined mixtures. Electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry is presented as a technical solution to this problem.     

A review of electron-capture and electron-transfer dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in polymer chemistry

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based studies of synthetic polymers often characterise detected polymer components using mass data alone. However when mass-based characterisations are ambiguous, tandem MS (MS/MS) offers a means by which additional analytical information may be collected. This review provides a synopsis of two particularly promising methods of dissociating polymer ions during MS/MS: electron-capture and electron-transfer dissociation (ECD and ETD, respectively). The article opens with a summary of the basic characteristics and operating principles of ECD and ETD, and relates these techniques to other methods of dissociating gas-phase ions, such as collision-induced dissociation (CID). Insights into ECD- and ETD-based MS/MS, gained from studies into proteins and peptides, are then discussed in relation to polymer chemistry. Finally, ECD- and ETD-based studies into various classes of polymer are summarised; for each polymer class, ECD- and ETD-derived data are compared to CID-derived data. These discussions identify ECD and ETD as powerful means by which unique and diagnostically useful polymer ion fragmentation data may be generated, and techniques worthy of increased utilisation by the polymer chemistry community.     

A new pyrolysis—mass spectrometry approach to organic marine chemistry using chemical ionization

A new approach is being developed to obtain a great deal of information about the organic chemicals in the marine environment as rapidly as possible. The sample, after drying, is pyrolyzed at four different temperatures and the resulting pyrolyzates are swept into a mass spectrometer operating under chemical ionization conditions to obtain maximum sensitivity while at the same time maintaining to a large extent the integrity of the molecular structure of the pyrolyzates. This results in at least four different pyrogram peaks each composed of at least 100 different ion species. A sample size of only 200 μl is required and the analysis is completed in less than 10 min.Minimal sample manipulation decreases drastically the chance for contamination. Resulting data are computer processed. Possible uses for this approach are water mass differentiation, water mass tracing, determination of covariation between organics and a process of interest, and monitoring the interaction of organics with a process of interest. The chief advantage of this approach is that our interpretation of the role that organics play in the marine environment will be less limited by the availability of sample, personnel, and time. The chief limitation is our inadequate understanding of pyrolysis mechanisms and how pyrolyzates behave under chemical ionization-mass spectrometric conditions. This should rapidly improve with more research.The approach was tested successfully by looking at the similarities and differences between two coastal bodies of water, one more influenced by terrestrial run-off than the other.     

A dopant for improved sensitivity in easy ambient sonic‐spray ionization mass spectrometry

Recently, 3‐nitrobenzonitrile (3‐NBN) has been used to improve sensitivity of sonic‐spray ionization mass spectrometry. Easy ambient sonic‐spray ionization (EASI) is one of the simplest, gentlest and most used spray‐based desorption/ionization ambient techniques, but limited sensitivity has been commonly taken as its major drawback. Herein we investigate the use of 3‐NBN as a dopant in EASI‐MS for improved sensitivity. Using a few typical EASI samples as test cases, the presence of 10 ppm (µg ml^?1) of 3‐NBN in the spray solvent showed two to fourfold gains in EASI‐MS sensitivity as measured both by total ion current and S/N ratios, accompanied with significant reductions in chemical noise. Sensitivity for DESI using 3‐NBN as a dopant also improved and dopant DESI versus dopant EASI sensitivities were compared. The use of solvent dopants seems therefore to be a promising strategy to improve sensitivity for spray‐based ambient MS techniques. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Metal-ligand solution equilibria studied by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: effect of instrumental parameters

Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) is being increasingly employed in the study of metal-ligand equilibria in aqueous solution. In the present work, the ESI-MS spectral changes due to different settings of the following instrumental parameters are analyzed: the solution flow rate (F(S)), the nebulizer gas flow rate (F(G)), the sprayer potential (E), and the temperature of the entrance capillary (T). Twenty-eight spectra were obtained for each of six samples containing aluminum(III) and 2,3-dihydroxypyridine at various pH, in the absence or in the presence of a buffer and of sodium ions. Among the considered instrumental parameters, T produced the largest effects on the ionic intensities. F(S) and F(G) affected the ESI-MS spectra to a lower extent than T. In the investigated conditions E had the weakest effects on the spectra.The correlations observed between the ionic intensities and these instrumental parameters were interpreted considering the presence of three kinds of perturbations occurring in the ESI-MS ion source: formation of some dimers in the droplets, different transfer efficiencies from the droplets to the gas phase for different complexes (according to their surface activity), and subsequent partial thermal decomposition of the dimers and of one of the monomeric complexes in the gas phase. Our results show that the evaluation of the effects produced in the ESI-MS spectra by a change of instrumental parameters can allow to identify the perturbations occurring when metal-ligand solutions are studied by ESI-MS.     

Structural analysis of 2,6-[bis(alkyloxy)methyl]-phenyltin derivatives using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

Electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry was applied to the structural analysis of 23 2,6-[bis(alkyloxy)methyl]phenyltin(IV) derivatives. The mass spectra were measured in both polarity modes and multistage tandem mass spectrometric (MS(n)) measurements were performed on the ion trap analyser for positively charged tin-containing ions. The sum of complementary ions observed in the positive-ion mode (i.e. [M-R(3)](+) ion) and in the negative-ion mode (i.e. [R(3)](-) ion) permits molecular mass determination in spite of the fact that the molecular adducts were often missing even in the first-order mass spectra. The subsequent fragmentation of [M-R(3)](+) ions studied by MS(n) and the correlation of observed fragment ions with the expected structures of synthesized organotin(IV) compounds allowed us to understand the fragmentation behaviour and the mechanism of the ion formation for studied compounds. The typical neutral losses are alkenes, alcohols and aldehydes. The fragmentation pattern of one selected compound was supported by MS(n) measurements of an isotopically labelled analogue to confirm unusual ion-molecule reactions of some fragment ions with water in the ion trap.     

Fragmentation of 2‐aroylbenzofuran derivatives by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

We investigated the gas‐phase fragmentation reactions of a series of 2‐aroylbenzofuran derivatives by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI‐MS/MS). The most intense fragment ions were the acylium ions m/z 105 and [M+H–C₆H₆]⁺, which originated directly from the precursor ion as a result of 2 competitive hydrogen rearrangements. Eliminations of CO and CO₂ from [M+H–C₆H₆]⁺ were also common fragmentation processes to all the analyzed compounds. In addition, eliminations of the radicals •Br and •Cl were diagnostic for halogen atoms at aromatic ring A, whereas eliminations of •CH₃ and CH₂O were useful to identify the methoxyl group attached to this same ring. We used thermochemical data, obtained at the B3LYP/6‐31+G(d) level of theory, to rationalize the fragmentation pathways and to elucidate the formation of E , which involved simultaneous elimination of 2 CO molecules from B .     

Identification of new phase II metabolites of xanthohumol in rat in vivo biotransformation of hop extracts using high-performance liquid chromatography electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

Polyphenolic compounds occurring in hop extracts and their phases I and II metabolites formed during in vivo rat biotransformation have been analyzed using HPLC/MS/MS with electrospray ionization (ESI). Two main groups of polyphenolics are present in the hops, i.e., xanthohumol related compounds and so called α- and β-bitter acids (humulones and lupulones). In our study, hybrid quadrupole-time-of-flight (QqTOF) analyzer is used for the identification of both natural phenolics and their metabolites due to the possibility of accurate mass measurements in full scan and tandem mass spectra supported by MSⁿ data obtained with the ion trap analyzer. Both ESI polarity modes are used for the determination of molecular weights based on [M+H]⁺ and [M−H]⁻ ions in the full scan spectra and the structural information in subsequent tandem mass spectra. The emphasis is given on the elemental composition determination of individual metabolites based on accurate masses typically better than 5 ppm even with the external calibration. Advanced software tools are used for the metabolite identification using the comparison of the blank chromatogram with the real incubation sample together with the software prediction and detection of possible metabolites. Chromatograms of rat incubations are also compared with chromatograms of pure rat feed, rat feed enriched with hop extracts and the placebo experiment. More than ten compounds originating from the hops are identified in rat feces, two of them belong to phase I metabolites and five compounds are phase II metabolites.     

气相色谱-单光子电离飞行时间质谱的联用及在柴油组分表征中的应用

建立了一种气相色谱(GC)与单光子电离-飞行时间质谱(SPI-TOF MS)联用(GC/SPI-TOF MS)的分析方法。首先,设计了一种双层套管的传输管用于连接GC与SPI-TOF MS,实现了GC与单光子电离离子源的无缝连接。在此基础上,以n-十五烷标准品和苯/甲苯/二甲苯的标准气为对象,对电离源的重要电压参数进行了优化,得到了纯净的分子离子峰,实现了对各类有机物的快速和准确定性。最后,将该方法用于分析柴油中的挥发性与半挥发性有机物,获得了柴油组分的二维GC×SPI-TOF MS谱图。不需要复杂的谱图解析和数据处理,根据谱图中离子的质荷比(m/z)归纳了柴油的主要成分,包括脂肪烃、芳香烃和含量很低的苯并吡咯等含氮化合物;根据色谱的保留时间将柴油中的同分异构体区分开来。结果表明GC/SPI-TOF MS法是一种简单、有效的分析方法,非常适于柴油及复杂环境样品等的分析表征。