Charge distributions in polyatomic ions

The determination of charge distributions in polyatomic ions through both energetic and quantum mechanical (CNDO/2) methods is discussed. Results from both methods are shown to be in good agreement.The author is grateful to Dr. R. Grinter of the University of East Anglia for assistance with the quantum mechanical calculations.     

有机化合物对电感耦合等离子体质谱(ICP-MS)法测定食品中总砷的影响

目的 研究有机化合物对电感耦合等离子体质谱法（ICP-MS）测定食品中总砷的影响,分析总结一般规律,为食品中总砷的准确测定提供理论依据。方法 研究了甲醇和乙醇等14种有机化合物对ICP-MS测定砷的动能歧视模式（KED）信号值和动态反应模式（DRC）信号值的影响,通过分析各有机化合物的电离能、极性和溶解度等性质,推测其在ICP-MS测定体系中对砷响应信号值增敏或者抑制的可能机理。结果 有机化合物对ICP-MS的KED模式测定砷离子As+的信号值有增敏效应,对DRC模式测定氧化砷离子AsO+信号值的影响小于KED模式测定As+的信号值,而且过程也更为复杂。相反,氮氧化物会减弱As+和AsO+的信号值。锗、铟等内标元素原子与砷原子在等离子体中电离行为和灵敏度的差异,使得内标元素校准砷测定信号的漂移受到干扰。结论 推测有机化合物影响ICP-MS测定砷响应信号值的可能机理是：有机化合物和氮氧化物经电离或裂解之后分别生成碳离子或多原子碳离子和氮氧离子或氮氧基团,碳离子或多原子碳离子会与砷原子发生电荷转移反应,增强As+或AsO+的信号值,同时有机化合物也可能会与As+竞争氧气而降低AsO+的信号值,而具有强电负性的氮氧基团可能会与As+和AsO+发生电荷转移反应而减弱其信号值。有机化合物对砷的ICP-MS响应信号值的影响可能是受到有机化合物电离能、溶解度、极性和分子结构等综合因素的结果。     

Selectivity of elementary molecular processes in molecule-surface collisions

Excitation of internal vibrational modes of molecules scattered from surfaces in which charge transfer between collision partners occurs is considered. A mechanism is proposed which should lead to controllable selectivity in the fragmentation distributions of scattered polyatomic molecules.     

Group orbital electronegativities

The Self-consistent Group Orbital and Bond Electronegativity (SGOBE) method [4] for calculating the orbital charge distributions in polyatomic molecules is reviewed, and a simplification described. The charge distributions for several polyatomic molecules are calculated. The chemical significance of the results is discussed.

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Zusammenfassung Es wird ein Überblick über die SGOBE-Methode zur Berechnung von Ladungsverteilun-gen in Molekülen gegeben und eine Vereinfachung dazu beschrieben. Die Ladungsverteilung einiger mehratomiger Moleküle wird berechnet und die chemische Bedeutung diskutiert.

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Résumé La méthode auto-cohérente des orbitaux de groupe et électronégativités des liaisons (SGOBE) pour calculer la distribution de charge orbitale des atomes dans les molécules poly-atomiques est résumée, et une simplification de la méthode SGOBE est décrite. Les distributions de charge de plusieurs molécules polyatomiques sont calculées, et la signification des résultats est discutée.

     

Emission mechanism of polyatomic ions Cs2Cl+ and Cs2BO2(+) in thermal ionization mass spectrometry with various carbon materials

The emission behavior of polyatomic ions Cs(2)Cl(+) and Cs(2)BO(2)(+) in the presence of various carbon materials (Graphite, Carbon, SWNTs, and Fullerenes) in the ionization source of thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) has been investigated. The emission capacity of various carbon materials are remarkably different as evidenced by the obvious discrepancy in signal intensity of polyatomic ions and accuracy/precision of boron and chlorine isotopic composition determined using Cs(2)Cl(+)-graphite-PTIMS/Cs(2)BO(2)(+)-graphite-PTIMS methods. Combined with morphology and microstructure properties of four selected carbon materials, it could be concluded that the emission behavior of the polyatomic ions strongly depends on the microstructure of the carbon materials used. A surface-induced collision mechanism for formation of such kinds of polyatomic ions in the ionization source of TIMS has been proposed based on the optimized configuration of Cs(2)BO(2)(+) and Cs(2)Cl(+) ions in the gas phase using a molecular dynamics method. The combination of the geometry of the selected carbon materials with the configuration of two polyatomic ions explains the structure effect of carbon materials on the emission behavior of polyatomic ions, where graphite samples with perfect parallels and equidistant layers ensure the capacity of emission to the maximum extent, and fullerenes worsen the emission of polyatomic ions by blocking their pathway.     

Higher sensitivity secondary ion mass spectrometry of biological molecules for high resolution, chemically specific imaging

To expand the role of high spatial resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) in biological studies, numerous developments have been reported in recent years for enhancing the molecular ion yield of high mass molecules. These include both surface modification, including matrix-enhanced SIMS and metal-assisted SIMS, and polyatomic primary ions. Using rat brain tissue sections and a bismuth primary ion gun able to produce atomic and polyatomic primary ions, we report here how the sensitivity enhancements provided by these developments are additive. Combined surface modification and polyatomic primary ions provided approximately 15.8 times more signal than using atomic primary ions on the raw sample, whereas surface modification and polyatomic primary ions yield approximately 3.8 and approximately 8.4 times more signal. This higher sensitivity is used to generate chemically specific images of higher mass biomolecules using a single molecular ion peak.     

Effect of the Electronic Structure of Carbenium and Silylium Ions on Their Chemical Behavior

Being isoelectronic analogs, silylium and carbenium ions exhibit quite a different reactivity toward nucleophiles. This is explained by their different electronic structures and charge distributions: In silylium ions the positive charge is almost completely concentrated on the silicon atom, and hydrogen atoms on the cationic center are hydride in nature, wheteas in carbenium ions, the positive charge is uniformly distributed between the carbenoid center and hydrogen atoms.     

Theoretical aspects of mass spectrometry

The fragmentation patterns of polyatomic ions are the source of the analytical information provided by mass spectrometry. Recent developments in the study of theoretical aspects related to unimolecular dissociations of polyatomic ions have improved our understanding of these processes.     

Effects of solvent on the maximum charge state and charge state distribution of protein ions produced by electrospray ionization

The effects of solvent composition on both the maximum charge states and charge state distributions of analyte ions formed by electrospray ionization were investigated using a quadrupole mass spectrometer. The charge state distributions of cytochrome c and myoglobin, formed from 47%/50%/3% water/solvent/acetic acid solutions, shift to lower charge (higher m/z) when the 50% solvent fraction is changed from water to methanol, to acetonitrile, to isopropanol. This is also the order of increasing gas-phase basicities of these solvents, although other physical properties of these solvents may also play a role. The effect is relatively small for these solvents, possibly due to their limited concentration inside the electrospray interface. In contrast, the addition of even small amounts of diethylamine (<0.4%) results in dramatic shifts to lower charge, presumably due to preferential proton transfer from the higher charge state ions to diethylamine. These results clearly show that the maximum charge states and charge state distributions of ions formed by electrospray ionization are influenced by solvents that are more volatile than water. Addition of even small amounts of two solvents that are less volatile than water, ethylene glycol and 2-methoxyethanol, also results in preferential deprotonation of higher charge state ions of small peptides, but these solvents actually produce an enhancement in the higher charge state ions for both cytochrome c and myoglobin. For instruments that have capabilities that improve with lower m/z, this effect could be taken advantage of to improve the performance of an analysis.     

Internal energy deposition in doubly charged tungsten hexacarbonyl on charge exchange at high energy with atomic and molecular targets

Charge exchange of W(CO) in the course of 7 keV collisions with various targets results in singly charged ions which are highly internally excited. The distribution of internal energies estimated by the degree to which consecutive fragmentations by CO loss occur is broad and includes very high energies (up to 15 eV). This result is inconsistent with exclusive operation of long-range electron transfer e.g. by either a curve crossing or Demkov mechanism; rather it suggests that direct excitation to a high-energy repulsive state of the products also occurs perhaps by an electronic excitation mechanism. The nature of the internal energy distribution suggests mechanistic analogies with simple collisional activation. Different target gases give rise to different average internal energy depositions monatomics and diatomics yielding higher energy depositions than do polyatomic targets. There is an approximate correlation between energy deposition and target ionization energy which is consistent with the proposed excitation mechanism considering the shapes of the potential energy surfaces. When the detailed internal energy distributions are compared characteristic differences are seen for individual targets. The efficiencies of the various targets at producing charge exchange were also compared. Large differences were found with the polyatomic targets having the greatest efficiencies. In addition a rough correlation was observed between the extent of charge exchange and target ionization energy and this is interpreted in terms of greater contributions from the long-range electron transfer process for targets of lower ionization energy. All the results are also consistent with contributons from more violent collisions which involve electron transfer at relatively small internuclear distances where the shapes of the potential surfaces are strongly dependent on distance.     

Charge distributions in molecules and ions: mindo 3 calculations. an alternative of the charge localisation concept in mass spectrometry

The charge distributions in a series of molecules A and their ions A⁺ and A²⁺ and in a second series B and their ions BH⁺ and BH²⁺ are presented. It is shown that their distributions are consistent with the conventional concepts of electronegativity, but not with those of the intermediate ion structures in the charge localisation concept of fragmentation processes in mass spectrometry. The charge distributions show that the carbon adjacent to a heteroatom has a considerable positive charge which apparently makes its bond to the next carbon atom weak and prone to fission which is a dominant process in the fragmentation of the positive ion.     

Charge inversion mass spectrometry: dissociation of resonantly neutralized molecules

Charge inversion mass spectrometry is an MS/MS method in which the electric charge of the precursor ions is opposite to that of the secondary product ions. Charge inversion mass spectrometry is classified into four types depending on the electric charge and time scale of collisions. Charge inversion mass spectrometry using collisions with gaseous targets in the keV energy collision range has provided insights into the structures and reactions of ions and neutral molecules. The characteristics of charge inversion experiments are presented in terms of the reaction endothermicities and the cross sections and their dependence on the target species. In the case of rare-gas or simple molecular targets, double-electron transfer in one collision is effective to form positive ions from negative ions, while, in the case of alkali metal targets, successive single-electron transfers in two collisions is effective to form negative ions from positive ions. On the basis of the observed target-density dependence of the product ion intensity and thermochemical considerations for internal energy distribution using thermometer molecules, the charge inversion processes using alkali metal targets have been confirmed to occur by electron transfers in successive collisions and the dissociation processes are found to occur in energy-selected neutral species formed from near-resonant neutralization with alkali metal targets. While collisionally activated dissociation (CAD) is due to dissociation of activated ions with broad internal energy distributions, the charge inversion process using alkali metal targets is due to dissociation of energy-selected neutral species with narrow internal energy distributions. The charge inversion/alkali metal spectra provide clear differentiation of the isomeric cations of C(2)H(2), C(3)H(4) and dichlorobenzenes. The CAD spectra of these isomeric cations are similar.     

Comparison of primary monoatomic with primary polyatomic ions for the characterisation of polyesters with static secondary ion mass spectrometry

Static secondary ion mass spectrometry (S-SIMS) emerges as one of the most adequate methods for the surface characterisation of polymers with an information depth of essentially one monolayer. The continuing search for increased analytical sensitivity and specificity has led to exploring the use of polyatomic primary ions as an alternative to the traditionally applied monoatomic projectiles. As part of a systematic investigation on polyatomic bombardment of organic and inorganic solids, this paper focuses on selected polyesters. Mass spectra and ion yields are compared for layers deposited on silicon wafers by spincoating solutions with different concentrations of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL), poly(butylene adipate) (PBA) and poly(ethylene adipate) (PEA). Accurate mass measurements have been used to support the assignment of the ions and link the composition of the detected ions to the analyte structure. Use of polyatomic projectiles increases the yield of structural ions with a factor of +/-15, +/-30 and +/-10 for PCL, PBA and PEA, respectively, in comparison to bombardment with Ga+ primary ions, while the molecular specificity is improved by the detection of additional high m/z ions.     

Knowledge-based probabilistic representations of branching ratios in chemical networks: the case of dissociative recombinations

Experimental data about branching ratios for the products of dissociative recombination of polyatomic ions are presently the unique information source available to modelers of natural or laboratory chemical plasmas. Yet, because of limitations in the measurement techniques, data for many ions are incomplete. In particular, the repartition of hydrogen atoms among the fragments of hydrocarbons ions is often not available. A consequence is that proper implementation of dissociative recombination processes in chemical models is difficult, and many models ignore invaluable data. We propose a novel probabilistic approach based on Dirichlet-type distributions, enabling modelers to fully account for the available information. As an application, we consider the production rate of radicals through dissociative recombination in an ionospheric chemistry model of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. We show how the complete scheme of dissociative recombination products derived with our method dramatically affects these rates in comparison with the simplistic H-loss mechanism implemented by default in all recent models.     

Effects of target gas in collision-induced dissociation using a double quadrupole mass spectrometer and radiofrequency

Collision-induced dissociation (CID) of polyatomic ions sampled from an rf-powered glow discharge is examined by using three target gases including atomic (Ar and Xe) and molecular species (N2). Collisions with these targets in the first quadrupole of the double quadrupole system result in the loss of discharge species by dissociation, symmetric and asymmetric charge exchange, and scattering, each to varying degrees. These processes are seen to be a function of the relative mass, size... and ionization potentials of the target species, as well as the collision center-of-mass energies. In light of the comparisons, xenon appears to be the best collision target for both CID and charge exchange because of its relatively low ionization potential and high dissociation efficiency of polyatornic species. Evidence for both symmetric and asymmetric charge exchange is presented for Ar and Xe target gases.     

Predicted and experimental standard electrode potentials in liquid ammonia at 25°C

Methods are described for the prediction of standard Gibbs free energies of formation of monatomic and polyatomic ions in liquid ammonia at 25°C. Supplementation with auxiliary free energy data allows the tabulation of standard electrode potentials in 1 m acid liquid ammonia solutions for 143 half-reactions involving 58 elements.     

Correlation of calculated halonium ion structures with product distributions from fluorine substituted terminal alkenes

Calculated equilibrium geometries, bond lengths, and charge densities were performed on halonium ions derived by the addition of halogen electrophiles to fluoro-substituted terminal alkenes. The calculated structures correlate with regiochemical product distributions from ring-opening of halonium ions by anions or by the solvent methanol. Calculated halonium ion structures and the Hammond postulate are utilized to predict the regiochemical product distributions for reactions of halogens with fluoroalkenes that are not investigated experimentally.     

Fundamental aspects of ion extraction in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

The present understanding of the ion extraction process in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) is reviewed critically. Topics include ion production in the ICP, origins of polyatomic ions, causes of and remedies for the secondary discharge, properties of the supersonic jet and of the beam leaving the skimmer, space charge effects, and matrix interferences. Areas of recent interest are also described from the perspective of the ion extraction process. These recent topics include “cool” plasmas, the three-aperture interface, ion extraction from helium plasmas, and ion sampling considerations unique to magnetic sector, time-of-flight, and ion trap mass spectrometers.     

At the surface of non-aqueous solutions of anionic surfactants

We have determined the concentration–depth profiles of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and cesium dodecyl sulfate (CDS) in their pure solutions, by which the surface structure of those solutions are characterized. With the identical bulk concentration, more Cs ions than sodium ions are present at the topmost layer and they penetrate deeper than sodium ions into the layer formed by the heads of the anions, shielding the electrostatic repulsion among those negatively charged anions more efficiently. The distributions of the charge at the surface of each studied solution were determined from those concentration–depth profiles of surfactant ions. The charge density varies more drastically in SDS solutions than in CDS solutions when their bulk concentrations are identical. These charge density profiles exhibit a visible and direct insight into the electric charge structure of the surface of ionic surfactant solutions. The experimental findings might be helpful to the investigations on the surface structures of aqueous solutions of ionic surfactants.     

Use of monoatomic and polyatomic projectiles for the characterisation of polylactic acid by static secondary ion mass spectrometry

The application of polyatomic primary ions is a strongly developing branch of static secondary ion mass spectrometry (S-SIMS), since these projectiles allow a significant increase in the secondary ion yields to be achieved. However, the different limitations and possibilities of certain polyatomic primary ions for use on specific functional classes of samples are still not completely known. This paper compares the use of monoatomic and polyatomic primary ions in S-SIMS for thin layers of polylactic acid (PLA), obtained by spin-coating solutions on silicon wafers. Bombardment with Ga+, Xe+ and SF5+ primary ions allowed the contribution of the projectile mass and number of atoms in the gain in ion yield and molecular specificity (relative importance of high m/z and low m/z signals) to be assessed. Samples obtained by spin-coating solutions with increasing concentration showed that optimal layer thickness depended on the primary ion used. In comparison with the use of Ga+ projectiles, the yield of structural ions increased by a factor of about 1.5 to 2 and by about 7 to 12 when Xe+ and SF5+ primary ion bombardment were applied, respectively. A detailed fragmentation pattern was elaborated to interpret ion signal intensity changes for different projectiles in terms of energy deposition and collective processes in the subsurface, and the internal energy of radical and even-electron precursor ions.