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Zimnicka MM. Structural studies of supramolecular complexes and assemblies by ion mobility mass spectrometry. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2024; 43:526-559. [PMID: 37260128 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21851] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Recent advances in instrumentation and development of computational strategies for ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS) studies have contributed to an extensive growth in the application of this analytical technique to comprehensive structural description of supramolecular systems. Apart from the benefits of IM-MS for interrogation of intrinsic properties of noncovalent aggregates in the experimental gas-phase environment, its merits for the description of native structural aspects, under the premises of having maintained the noncovalent interactions innate upon the ionization process, have attracted even more attention and gained increasing interest in the scientific community. Thus, various types of supramolecular complexes and assemblies relevant for biological, medical, material, and environmental sciences have been characterized so far by IM-MS supported by computational chemistry. This review covers the state-of-the-art in this field and discusses experimental methods and accompanying computational approaches for assessing the reliable three-dimensional structural elucidation of supramolecular complexes and assemblies by IM-MS.
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- Magdalena M Zimnicka
- Mass Spectrometry Group, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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Buczkowski A, Dominikowska J, Urbaniak P, Tokarz P, Guć M, Schroeder G. Doubly or triply protonated? Complexes of cucurbit[n]urils (n = 6–8) with a tripodal ligand tris(2-aminoethyl)amine (TREN). J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Polewski L, Springer A, Pagel K, Schalley CA. Gas-Phase Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:2445-2456. [PMID: 33900743 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Ion mobility spectrometry and gas-phase IR action spectroscopy are two structure-sensitive mass-spectrometric methods becoming more popular recently. While ion mobility spectrometry provides collision cross sections as a size and shape dependent parameter of an ion of interest, gas-phase spectroscopy identifies functional groups and is capable of distinguishing different isomers. Both methods have recently found application for the investigation of supramolecular assemblies. We here highlight several aspects.Starting with the characterization of switching states in azobenzene photoswitches as well as redox-switchable lasso-type pseudorotaxanes, structures of isomers can be distinguished and mechanistic details analyzed. Ion mobility mass spectrometry in combination with gas-phase H/D-exchange reactions unravels subtle structural details as described for the chiral recognition of crown ether amino acid complexes. Gas-phase IR spectroscopy allows identification of details of the binding patterns in dimeric amino acid clusters as well as the serine octamer. This research can be extended into the analysis of peptide assemblies that are of medical relevance, for example, in Alzheimer's disease, and into a general hydrophobicity scale for natural as well as synthetic amino acids. The development of ultracold gas-phase spectroscopy that for example makes use of ions trapped in liquid helium droplets provides access to very well resolved spectra. The combination of ion mobility separation of ions with subsequent spectroscopic analysis even permits separation of different isomers and studying them separately with respect to their structure. This represents a great advantage of these gas-phase methods over solution experiments, in which the supramolecular complexes under study typically equilibrate and thus prevent a separate investigation of different isomers. At the end of this overview, we will discuss larger and more complex supramolecules, among them giant halogen-bonded cages and complex intertwined topologies such as molecular knots and Solomon links.
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- Lukasz Polewski
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 20-22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 20-22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 20-22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 20-22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Jeanne Dit Fouque D, Maroto A, Memboeuf A. Structural analysis of a compound despite the presence of an isobaric interference by using in-source Collision Induced Dissociation and tandem mass spectrometry. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2021; 56:e4698. [PMID: 33480458 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The presence of an isobaric contaminant can drastically affect MS and MS/MS patterns leading to erroneous structural and quantitative analysis, which is a real challenge in mass spectrometry. Herein, we demonstrate that MS and MS/MS structural analysis of a compound can be successfully performed despite the presence of an isobaric interference with as low as few millidaltons mass difference by using pseudo-MS3 . To this end, in-source collisional excitation (in-source CID) and the Survival Yield (SY) technique (energy-resolved collision induced dissociation MS/MS) were performed on two different source geometries: a Z-spray and an orthogonal spray (with a transfer capillary) ionization sources on two different mass spectrometers. By using soft ionization conditions, the SY curve for the mixture is a linear combination of the SY curves from the pure compounds demonstrating the presence of two components in the mixture. In the case of harsher ionization conditions, the SY curve of the mixture perfectly overlaps the SY curve from the pure analyte. This observation demonstrates the isobaric interference has been completely removed by in-source CID fragmentation, independently of the source design, leaving then the analyte precursor ions only. Therefore, by measuring the MS spectrum in harsh ionization conditions and according to SY criterium, the compound of interest can be made free from isobaric interference paving the way for, for example, unequivocal HPLC-MS as well as HPLC-MS/MS structural and quantitative analysis despite the presence of a co-eluting isobaric interference.
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- Univ Brest, UMR UBO-CNRS 6521, Brest, F-29200, France
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Wollschläger JM, Schalley CA. Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometric Investigation on the Photoisomerization of a 4,4’‐Diamidoazobenzene Model. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201800251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Jan M. Wollschläger
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie der Freien Universität Berlin Takustr 3 14195 Berlin Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie der Freien Universität Berlin Takustr 3 14195 Berlin Germany
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Jeanne Dit Fouque D, Maroto A, Memboeuf A. Internal Standard Quantification Using Tandem Mass Spectrometry of a Tryptic Peptide in the Presence of an Isobaric Interference. Anal Chem 2018; 90:14126-14130. [PMID: 30462486 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Model mixtures of isobaric peptides were studied to evaluate the possibility, using tandem mass spectrometry experiments, for internal standard quantification of a tryptic peptide in the presence of an isobaric interference. To this end, direct injection electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MS/MS) experiments were performed on an ion trap instrument using a large mass-selection window (15 m/ z) encompassing the isobaric mixture and the internal standard; MS/MS experiments were carried out to remove completely the interference from the mixture by fragmenting it. This allowed for the correct intensity assignment for the protonated peptide peak and, thus, for the analyte to be quantified through the relative intensity estimate of this peak with respect to the internal standard. This was done by monitoring the 15 m/ z mass-selection window only and without the necessity for careful inspection of any fragment ions peaks. The interference removal was assessed by determining an excitation voltage large enough for the analyte/internal standard ratio to remain constant ensuring correct quantification despite isobaric contamination. A calibration curve was obtained to predict reference samples and compared to reference samples purposely spiked with the interference using the proposed methodology; internal standard quantification of the analyte was made possible with ∼1% deviation despite the isobaric contamination.
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- Dany Jeanne Dit Fouque
- CEMCA, Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne Loire, CS 93837, 6 Av. Le Gorgeu , Brest 29238 Cedex 3, France
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- CEMCA, Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne Loire, CS 93837, 6 Av. Le Gorgeu , Brest 29238 Cedex 3, France
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- CEMCA, Université de Brest, CNRS, Université Bretagne Loire, CS 93837, 6 Av. Le Gorgeu , Brest 29238 Cedex 3, France
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Kalenius E, Groessl M, Rissanen K. Ion mobility–mass spectrometry of supramolecular complexes and assemblies. Nat Rev Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1038/s41570-018-0062-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Jeanne Dit Fouque D, Lartia R, Maroto A, Memboeuf A. Quantification of intramolecular click chemistry modified synthetic peptide isomers in mixtures using tandem mass spectrometry and the survival yield technique. Anal Bioanal Chem 2018; 410:5765-5777. [DOI: 10.1007/s00216-018-1258-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Affiliation(s)
- Stephan Sinn
- Institute of Nanotechnology (INT); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Deutschland/Germany
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- Institute of Nanotechnology (INT); Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Deutschland/Germany
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Carroy G, Lemaur V, Henoumont C, Laurent S, De Winter J, De Pauw E, Cornil J, Gerbaux P. Flying Cages in Traveling Wave Ion Mobility: Influence of the Instrumental Parameters on the Topology of the Host-Guest Complexes. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2018; 29:121-132. [PMID: 28971374 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-017-1816-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2017] [Revised: 09/13/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Supramolecular mass spectrometry has emerged in the last decade as an orthogonal method to access, at the molecular level, the structures of noncovalent complexes extracted from the condensed phase to the rarefied gas phase using electrospray ionization. It is often considered that the soft nature of the ESI source confers to the method the capability to generate structural data comparable to those in the condensed phase. In the present paper, using the ammonium ion/cucurbituril combination as a model system, we investigate using ion mobility and computational chemistry the influence of the instrumental parameters on the topology, i.e., internal versus external association, of gaseous host/guest complex ions. MS and theoretical data are confronted to condensed phase data derived from nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to assess whether the instrumental parameters can play an insidious role when trying to derive condensed phase data from mass spectrometry results. Graphical Abstract ᅟ.
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- Glenn Carroy
- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry, Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials, University of Mons, UMONS, 23 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
- Mass spectrometry Laboratory, University of Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium
- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers, Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials, University of Mons, UMONS, 23 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers, Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials, University of Mons, UMONS, 23 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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- Department of General, Organic and Biomedical Chemistry, UMONS, Avenue Victor Maistriau 19, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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- Department of General, Organic and Biomedical Chemistry, UMONS, Avenue Victor Maistriau 19, 7000, Mons, Belgium
- Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, rue Adrienne Bolland 8, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry, Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials, University of Mons, UMONS, 23 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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- Mass spectrometry Laboratory, University of Liège, B-4000, Liège, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers, Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials, University of Mons, UMONS, 23 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry, Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials, University of Mons, UMONS, 23 Place du Parc, 7000, Mons, Belgium.
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- Jiewen Shen
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, C100 Bensen Science Building; Brigham Young University; Provo UT 84602 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, C100 Bensen Science Building; Brigham Young University; Provo UT 84602 U.S.A
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Duez Q, Knight G, Daly S, De Winter J, Halin E, MacAleese L, Antoine R, Gerbaux P, Dugourd P. Action-FRET of β-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes. NEW J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c6nj03250h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Action-FRET is introduced as an original method to probe the structure of gaseous non-covalent complexes.
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- Quentin Duez
- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry (CISMa)
- Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP)
- University of Mons - UMONS
- 7000 Mons
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- Univ Lyon
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- CNRS
- Institut Lumière Matière
- Villeurbanne
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- Univ Lyon
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- CNRS
- Institut Lumière Matière
- Villeurbanne
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry (CISMa)
- Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP)
- University of Mons - UMONS
- 7000 Mons
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry (CISMa)
- Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP)
- University of Mons - UMONS
- 7000 Mons
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- Univ Lyon
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- CNRS
- Institut Lumière Matière
- Villeurbanne
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- Univ Lyon
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- CNRS
- Institut Lumière Matière
- Villeurbanne
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry (CISMa)
- Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers (CIRMAP)
- University of Mons - UMONS
- 7000 Mons
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- Univ Lyon
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
- CNRS
- Institut Lumière Matière
- Villeurbanne
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Jeanne Dit Fouque D, Maroto A, Memboeuf A. Purification and Quantification of an Isomeric Compound in a Mixture by Collisional Excitation in Multistage Mass Spectrometry Experiments. Anal Chem 2016; 88:10821-10825. [PMID: 27805355 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b03490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The differentiation, characterization, and quantification of isomers and/or isobars in mixtures is a recurrent problem in mass spectrometry and more generally in analytical chemistry. Here we present a new strategy to assess the purity of a compound that is susceptible to be contaminated with another isomeric side-product in trace levels. Providing one of the isomers is available as pure sample, this new strategy allows the detection of isomeric contamination. This is done thanks to a "gas-phase collisional purification" inside an ion trap mass spectrometer paving the way for an improved analysis of at least similar samples. This strategy consists in using collision induced dissociation (CID) multistage mass spectrometry (MS2 and MS3) experiments and the survival yield (SY) technique. It has been successfully applied to mixtures of cyclic poly(L-lactide) (PLA) with increasing amounts of its linear topological isomer. Purification in gas phase of PLA mixtures was established based on SY curves obtained in MS3 mode: all samples gave rise to the same SY curve corresponding then to the pure cyclic component. This new strategy was sensitive enough to detect traces of linear PLA (<3%) in a sample of cyclic PLA that was supposedly pure according to other characterization techniques (1H NMR, MALDI-HRMS, and size-exclusion chromatography). Moreover, in this case, the presence of linear isomer was undetectable according to MS/MS or MS/MS/MS analysis only as fragment ions are also of the same m/z values. This type of approach could easily be implemented in hyphenated mass spectrometric techniques to improve the structural and quantitative analysis of complex samples.
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- Dany Jeanne Dit Fouque
- UMR CNRS 6521, CEMCA, Université de Bretagne Occidentale , 6 Av. Le Gorgeu, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- UMR CNRS 6521, CEMCA, Université de Bretagne Occidentale , 6 Av. Le Gorgeu, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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- UMR CNRS 6521, CEMCA, Université de Bretagne Occidentale , 6 Av. Le Gorgeu, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France
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Carroy G, Lemaur V, De Winter J, Isaacs L, De Pauw E, Cornil J, Gerbaux P. Energy-resolved collision-induced dissociation of non-covalent ions: charge- and guest-dependence of decomplexation reaction efficiencies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:12557-68. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01026a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The influence of the charge state on the CID reactions undergone by host–guest complexes is monitored by mass spectrometry and described by computational chemistry.
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- Glenn Carroy
- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry
- Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials
- University of Mons
- UMONS
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials
- Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers
- Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials
- University of Mons
- UMONS
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry
- Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials
- University of Mons
- UMONS
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- University of Maryland
- College Park
- USA
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- Mass spectrometry Laboratory
- University of Liège
- B-4000 Liège
- Belgium
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials
- Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers
- Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials
- University of Mons
- UMONS
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- Organic Synthesis and Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
- Interdisciplinary Center for Mass Spectrometry
- Research Institute for Science and Engineering of Materials
- University of Mons
- UMONS
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