Detection and Identification of VOCs Using Differential Ion Mobility Spectrometry (DMS)

The article presents a technique of differential ion mobility spectrometry (DMS) applicable to the detection and identification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from such categories as n-alkanes, alcohols, acetate esters, ketones, botulinum toxin, BTX, and fluoro- and chloro-organic compounds. A possibility of mixture identification using only the DMS spectrometer is analyzed, and several examples are published for the first time. An analysis of different compounds and their mechanisms of fragmentation, influence on effective ion temperature, and high electric field intensity is discussed.     

离子淌度谱及其近年进展

近年来离子淌度谱（ＩＭＳ）在样品引入技术，信号采集和数据处理、离子源等方面都有了显著的进展，其中以ＩＭＳ作为色谱检测器（ＩＭＤ）进行的研究尤为重要，而ＩＭＳ与Ｊ民喷雾郭子化（ＥＳＩ）技术的联用扩大其在非挥发性化合物和生物物质检测方面的应用评论还综述了近年来ＩＭＳ应用于环保、化学化工、违禁药物检测、爆炸物检测以及半导体表面挥发物分析等方面的最新研究成果。     

紫外离子迁移谱在线监测芳香族化合物

利用自制紫外离子迁移谱仪,在迁移电场为311V/cm、离子门开门时间0.2ms和室温的条件下,测定了空气中的苯、甲苯、二甲苯以及萘、芴、蒽、1,2,3-三氯苯、5-氯苯酚等芳香族化合物,得到苯的校正迁移率为1.86cm2V-1s-1,且校正迁移率随着分子量的增大而减小。仪器对苯的检出限达到1mg/m3;线性范围达到4个数量级;响应时间小于10s。研究发现,电场强度增大有利于提高仪器的灵敏度,测定时载气流速100mL/min,迁移气流速300mL/min时,效果最佳。     

Analysis of Sevin,Amitraz, and Metalaxyl Pesticides Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry

Abstract

Positive ion mobility spectra of different pesticides, such as sevin or carbaryl (1‐napthyl methylcarbamate), amitraz (N,N′‐[(methylimino) dimethylidyne]di‐2,4‐xylidine), and metalaxyl (methyl‐N‐(2,6‐dimethylphenyl)‐N‐(2‐xylyl)‐DL‐alaninate) as carbamate, amidine, and alkaline groups, respectively, have been studied in air at ambient pressure using ion mobility spectrometry method with ⁶³Ni ionization source. The limits of detection (LODs) were 5.3×10^?10, 5.8×10^?10, and 4.5×10^?10 g for sevin, amitraz, and metalaxyl, respectively. The working range of these compounds was about three orders of magnitude and the relative standard deviation (RSD) of repeatability at the 5 µg mL^?1 level were all below 14%. Furthermore, in this study, the influences of IMS cell temperature on the ion mobility spectra of these compounds were investigated.     

离子迁移谱研究进展

本文简要介绍了离子迁移谱的基本原理,对近年来离子迁移谱技术的最新进展进行了较为详细的评述,并对未来的发展趋势作了展望.     

Correlating Glycoforms of DC-SIGN with Stability Using a Combination of Enzymatic Digestion and Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry

The immune scavenger protein DC-SIGN interacts with glycosylated proteins and has a putative role in facilitating viral infection. How these recognition events take place with different viruses is not clear and the effects of glycosylation on the folding and stability of DC-SIGN have not been reported. Herein, we report the development and application of a mass-spectrometry-based approach to both uncover and characterise the effects of O-glycans on the stability of DC-SIGN. We first quantify the Core 1 and 2 O-glycan structures on the carbohydrate recognition and extracellular domains of the protein using sequential exoglycosidase sequencing. Using ion mobility mass spectrometry, we show how specific O-glycans, and/or single monosaccharide substitutions, alter both the overall collision cross section and the gas-phase stability of the DC-SIGN isoforms. We find that rather than the mass or length of glycoprotein modifications, the stability of DC-SIGN is better correlated with the number of glycosylation sites.     

Identification of Isomeric N-Glycans by Conformer Distribution Fingerprinting using Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry

Glycans possess unparalleled structural complexity arising from chemically similar monosaccharide building blocks, configurations of anomeric linkages and different branching patterns, potentially giving rise to many isomers. This level of complexity is one of the main reasons that identification of exact glycan structures in biological samples still lags behind that of other biomolecules. Here, we introduce a methodology to identify isomeric N-glycans by determining gas phase conformer distributions (CDs) by measuring arrival time distributions (ATDs) using drift-tube ion mobility spectrometry-mass spectrometry. Key to the approach is the use of a range of well-defined synthetic glycans that made it possible to investigate conformer distributions in the gas phase of isomeric glycans in a systematic manner. In addition, we have computed CD fingerprints by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, which compared well with experimentally determined CDs. It supports that ATDs resemble conformational populations in the gas phase and offer the prospect that such an approach can contribute to generating a library of CCS distributions (CCSDs) for structure identification.     

载气流速对高场不对称波形离子迁移谱的影响

载气流速是影响高场不对称波形离子迁移谱(FAIMS)的重要参数.以自制的高场不对称波形离子迁移谱仪为实验平台,在射频电场幅值3 kV/cm,频率500 kHz,占空比0.36的条件下,研究了载气流速对苯离子迁移谱谱峰强度和半峰宽的影响.实验结果表明: 载气流速为3.7 L/min时,苯样品的谱峰强度最大,仪器的灵敏度最高.随着载气流速的增加,谱峰半峰宽变宽,仪器的分辨率下降.载气流速为3 .0～3.7 L/min时仪器综合性能最佳.此结果对于控制迁移谱仪载气流速有重要的参考意义.     

Separation of Ions from Volatile Organic Compounds Using High-Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Mass Spectrometer

A combination of high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) with mass spectrometer (MS) was analyzed. FAIMS separates ions from the volatile organic compounds in the gas-phase as an ion-filter for MS. The sample ions were created at ambient pressure by ion source, which was equipped with a 10.6 eV UV discharge lamp (λ=116.5 nm).The drift tube of FAIMS is composed of two parallel planar electrodes and the dimension is 10 mm×8 mm×0.5 mm. FAIMS was investigated when driven by the high-filed rectangular asymmetric waveform with the peak-to-peak voltage of 1.36 kV at the frequency of 1 MHz and the duty cycle of 30%. The acetone, the butanone, and their mixture were adopted to characterize the FAIMS-MS. The mass spectra obtained from MS illustrate that there are ion-molecular reactions between the ions and the sample neutral molecular. And the proton transfer behavior in the mixture of the acetone and the butanone is also observed.With the compensation voltage tuned from -30 V to 10 V with a step size of 0.1 V, the ion pre-separation before MS is realized.     

基于两维扫描高场不对称离子迁移谱技术检测挥发酚

要采用自制高场不对称波形离子迁移谱(FAIMS)仪对苯酚、2-甲酚、3-甲酚、4-甲酚以及2,4-二氯酚进行检测,通过结合补偿电压以及射频高压的二维扫描优化了对检测物的分辨.射频高场强度为1.6×104 V/cm时,2-甲酚与4-甲酚有最佳分辨效果,其余物质在高场强度大于1.8×104 V/cm时可以得到最佳分辨.研究...     

漂移管工作温度对离子迁移率谱的影响

离子迁移率、反应物离子的种类和产量与漂移管工作温度有很大的关系。本研究在不同温度下进行了离子迁移率实验,结果表明,离子迁移率随温度的升高而增大,而提高工作温度可以减少水分子对产物离子的影响,有利于改善系统检测的分辨率;选择合适漂移管工作温度,能有效地增加反应物离子的产量,从而提高系统检测的灵敏度和选择性。     

常压敞开式离子化-离子迁移谱法快速筛查玩具中14种致癌致敏染料

采用常压敞开式离子化结合离子迁移谱技术,研究建立了蜡笔、水贴纸、橡皮泥等玩具样品中14种致癌致敏染料的快速筛查方法。无需繁琐的样品前处理过程,玩具样品经纸喷雾或萃取纳升喷雾,将上样、萃取、电离等步骤集成为一步实现,并在16 ms内完成了离子迁移谱分析检测。同时还对疑似阳性样品建立了超高效液相色谱-串联质谱的确证方法。14种致癌致敏染料的检出限为0.5~2 mg/kg。该方法流程便捷、快速高效,适用于玩具样品的现场快速筛查。     

离子迁移谱定量检测复杂基质中新型炸药六亚甲基三过氧化二胺

六亚甲基三过氧化二胺( Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, HMTD)是一种新型有机过氧化爆炸物,由于原料易得、制备方法简单,常被用于恐怖袭击和犯罪活动中。本实验基于非放射性电离源真空紫外灯( VUV)发展了一种试剂分子辅助灯电离正离子迁移谱技术,通过优化筛选试剂分子,最终选择丙酮作为HMTD定量检测的试剂分子。利用质谱对丙酮的反应试剂离子和HMTD的产物离子进行了离子归属,确定反应试剂离子为丙酮二聚体离子 m/z 117[( CH3)2 CO ]2 H+, HMTD 的产物离子为其质子化的分子离子m/z 209[ HMTD+H]+。在迁移管和热解析温度120℃的条件下,利用HMTD最大信号强度和第10 s的信号强度对其标准样品进行定量检测,线性范围分别为5~50 ng/μL和5~100 ng/μL,检出限分别可达0.2和0.3 ng/μL。化妆品如香水等常常干扰和抑制离子迁移谱测量,发展在香水基质中HMTD的现场快速筛查和检测方法具有现实意义。将这两种定量方法应用于3种不同品牌香水样品中HMTD的定量检测,对比发现利用HMTD第10 s的信号强度进行定量具有较好的回收率和准确性,该方法适用于复杂基质中HMTD的准确快速定量检测。     

利用芯片式高场非对称波形离子迁移谱技术快速检测苯丙氨酸

采用金属扩散管-芯片式高场非对称波形离子迁移谱(FAIMS)技术对苯丙氨酸进行了快速检测,设定测试压强为250 kPa,金属扩散管温度为190℃,在优化的最佳分析条件下,即:载气流速为2000 mL/min,分离电压为152.8 V时,在正模式下获得了苯丙氨酸的离子特征谱图和补偿电压特征值-0.62 V.另外,利用FAIMS对不同浓度的苯丙氨酸样品气进行了检测,确定了FAIMS检测的定量线性范围为6～20 mg/L和检出限为5.9 mg/L.本实验为FAIMS应用于苯丙氨酸的快速检测提供了重要参考.     

利用紫外光离子源高场不对称波形离子迁移谱快速、现场检测水中氨的含量

氨是水体主要的污染物之一,其含量是水质评估的重要参数。本研究采用真空紫外光离子源-高场不对称波形离子迁移谱(Ultraviolet photoionization high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry, UVFAIMS)技术,发展一种的水中氨含量的现场快速检测方法。通过对比标准氨样品和水中微量氨UV-FAIMS 谱图峰的特征补偿电压(Compensation voltage, CV)值,确定了水中HN+4的特征离子峰位置;研究了不同分离电压(Dispersion voltages, DV)下HN+4谱图峰位置的关系,获得了HN+4的特征识别系数α2和α4分别为2.21×10-5 Td-2和-1.45323×10-9 Td-4;通过不同浓度样品的信号响应,研究了UV-FAIMS 对水中氨的检出限,在信噪比为3的情况下达到了9.2 μg/ L。本研究为水中氨现场检测提供了一种快速、无需前处理的技术手段。     

Improved Analysis of Isomeric Polyphenol Dimers Using the 4th Dimension of Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry—Mass Spectrometry

Dehydrodicatechins resulting from (epi)catechin oxidation have been investigated in different foods and natural products, but they still offer some analytical challenges. The purpose of this research is to develop a method using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with trapped ion mobility spectrometry and tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC−ESI−TIMS−QTOF−MS/MS) to improve the characterization of dehydrodicatechins from model solutions (oxidation dimers of (+)-catechin and/or (−)-epicatechin). Approximately 30 dehydrodicatechins were detected in the model solutions, including dehydrodicatechins B with β and ε-interflavanic configurations and dehydrodicatechins A with γ-configuration. A total of 11 dehydrodicatechins B, based on (−)-epicatechin, (+)-catechin, or both, were tentatively identified in a grape seed extract. All of them were of β-configuration, except for one compound that was of ε-configuration. TIMS allowed the mobility separation of chromatographically coeluted isomers including dehydrodicatechins and procyanidins with similar MS/MS fragmentation patterns that would hardly be distinguished by LC-MS/MS alone, which demonstrates the superiority of TIMS added to LC-MS/MS for these kinds of compounds. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) was applied to the analysis of dehydrodicatechins. This method can be adapted for other natural products.     

CHCl3电子吸附速率常数的离子迁移谱

The dissociative electron attachment process for CHCl₃ at different electric field have been studied with nitrogen as drift and carrier gas using corona discharge ionization source ion mobility spectrometry (CD-IMS). The corresponding electron attachment rate constants varied from 1.26×10^-8 cm³/(molecules s) to 8.24×10^-9 cm³/(molecules s) as the electric field changed from 200 V/cm to 500 V/cm. At a fixed electric field in the drift region,the attachment rate constants are also detected at different sample concentration. The ion-molecule reaction rate constants for the further reaction between Cl^- and CHCl₃ are also detected, which indicates that the technique maybe becomes a new method to research the rate constants between ions and neural molecules. And the reaction rate constants between Cl^- and CHCl₃ are the first time detected using CD-IMS.     

Peak Profile Analysis in High Field Asymmetric Wave Ion Mobility Spectrometry

High field asymmetric wave ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) is a powerful tool to detect and characterize gas-phase ions, while the unsolvable partial differential equation of ions moving in ion drift tube poses a big challenge to FAIMS spectral peak analysis. In this work, a universal and effective model of FAIMS spectral peak profile has been proposed by introducing ion trajectory and loss height. With this model, the influence of the structure of ion drift tube, dispersion voltages, compensation voltages, and carrier gas flow rate on the FAIMS spectral peak characteristics like peak shape, full width at half maximum and peak height is analyzed and discussed. The results show that the influence of different factors on the FAIMS spectral peak profile can be qualitatively described by the model which agrees with the experimental data.     

A Strategy for Identification and Structural Characterization of Compounds from Plantago asiatica L. by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Combined with Ion Mobility Spectrometry

Plantago asiatica L. (PAL) as a medicinal and edible plant is rich in chemical compounds, which makes the systematic and comprehensive characterization of its components challenging. In this study, an integrated strategy based on three-dimensional separation including AB-8 macroporous resin column chromatography, ultra-high performance liquid chromatography–quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-TOF MS), and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry with ion-mobility spectrometry (UHPLC-IM-MS) was established and used to separate and identify the structures of compounds from PAL. The extracts of PAL were firstly separated into three parts by AB-8 macroporous resin and further separated and identified by UHPLC-Q-TOF MS and UHPLC-IM-MS, respectively. Additionally, UHPLC-IM-MS was used to identify isomers and coeluting compounds, so that the product ions appearing at the same retention time (RT)can clearly distinguish where the parent ion belongs by their different drift times. UNIFI software was used for data processing and structure identification. A total of 86 compounds, including triterpenes, iridoids, phenylethanoid glycosides, guanidine derivatives, organic acids, and fatty acids, were identified by using MS information and fragment ion information provided by UHPLC-Q-TOF MS and UHPLC-IM-MS. In particular, a pair of isoforms of plantagoside from PAL were detected and identified by UHPLC-IM-MS combined with the theoretical calculation method for the first time. In conclusion, the AB-8 macroporous resin column chromatography can separate the main compounds of PAL and enrich the trace compounds. Combining UHPLC-IM-MS and UHPLC-Q-TOF MS can obtain not only more fragments but also their unique drift times and RT, which is more conducive to the identification of complex systems, especially isomers. This proposed strategy can provide an effective method to separate and identify chemical components, and distinguish isomers in the complex system of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).