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Bräkling S, Kroll K, Klee S, Benter T, Kersten H. Hydrogen Plasma-Based Medium Pressure Chemical Ionization Source for GC-TOFMS. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2022; 33:499-509. [PMID: 35164508 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.1c00329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The construction, critical evaluation, and performance assessment of a medium-pressure (2-13 mbar), high-temperature chemical ionization (CI) source for application in GC-MS is described. The ion source is coupled to a commercial time-of-flight (TOF) mass analyzer. Reagent ions are generated in a two staged process. The first stage uses a filament free, helical resonator plasma (HRP) driven ion source for H3+ generation. Reagent gases, for example, nitrogen, isobutane, and methane are added in a second stage to the H3+ stream, which leads to the formation of final protonation reagents. The GC effluent is added subsequently to the reagent ion gas stream. Designed for the hyphenation with gas chromatography, this GC-CI-TOFMS combination produces GC limited Gaussian peak shapes even for high boiling point compounds. Limits of detection for the compounds investigated are determined as 0.4-1.2 pg on column with nitrogen, 0.6-12.6 pg with isobutane, and 2 pg to >25 pg with methane as reagent gas, respectively. An EPA 8270 LCS mix containing 78 main EPA pollutants is used to evaluate the selectivity of the different reagent ions. Using nitrogen as reagent gas, 74 of 78 compounds are detected. In comparison, 41 of 78 compounds and 62 of 78 compounds are detected with isobutane or methane as CI reagent gas, respectively.
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- Steffen Bräkling
- TOFWERK AG, 3645 Thun, Switzerland
- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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Wojcik R, Oxford TL, Melville A, Wright CW, Wright BW. Mapping Glyceride Species in Biodiesel by High-Temperature Gas Chromatography Combined with Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Anal Chem 2021; 93:14432-14439. [PMID: 34669385 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c02474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Accurate and comprehensive identification of residual glycerides in biodiesel is an important part of fuel characterization due to the impact of glycerides on the fuel physicochemical properties. However, analysis of bound glycerol in biodiesel samples faces challenges due to lack of readily available standards of structurally complex glyceride species in nontraditional biodiesel feedstocks and a risk of misannotation in the presence of impurities in gas chromatographic separations. Here, we evaluate methane and isobutane chemical ionization-single quadrupole mass spectrometry combined with high-temperature gas chromatography separations for mapping monoacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, and triacylglycerols in biodiesel. Unlike electron impact ionization, which produces mostly in-source fragments, isobutane chemical ionization spectra of tetramethylsilyl-derivatized monoacylglycerols and diacylglycerols are dominated by molecular ions and M-SiO(CH3)3+ ions, which provide important diagnostic information. We demonstrate the utility of isobutane chemical ionization in identifying structurally complex glycerolipid standards as well as species in biodiesel samples from different plant and animal feedstocks.
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- Roza Wojcik
- National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- National Security Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Capellades J, Junza A, Samino S, Brunner JS, Schabbauer G, Vinaixa M, Yanes O. Exploring the Use of Gas Chromatography Coupled to Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (GC-CI-MS) for Stable Isotope Labeling in Metabolomics. Anal Chem 2021; 93:1242-1248. [PMID: 33369389 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c02998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Isotopic-labeling experiments have been valuable to monitor the flux of metabolic reactions in biological systems, which is crucial to understand homeostatic alterations with disease. Experimental determination of metabolic fluxes can be inferred from a characteristic rearrangement of stable isotope tracers (e.g., 13C or 15N) that can be detected by mass spectrometry (MS). Metabolites measured are generally members of well-known metabolic pathways, and most of them can be detected using both gas chromatography (GC)-MS and liquid chromatography (LC)-MS. In here, we show that GC methods coupled to chemical ionization (CI) MS have a clear advantage over alternative methodologies due to GC's superior chromatography separation efficiency and the fact that CI is a soft ionization technique that yields identifiable protonated molecular ion peaks. We tested diverse GC-CI-MS setups, including methane and isobutane reagent gases, triple quadrupole (QqQ) MS in SIM mode, or selected ion clusters using optimized narrow windows (∼10 Da) in scan mode, and standard full scan methods using high resolution GC-(q)TOF and GC-Orbitrap systems. Isobutane as a reagent gas in combination with both low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) MS showed the best performance, enabling precise detection of isotopologues in most metabolic intermediates of central carbon metabolism. Finally, with the aim of overcoming manual operations, we developed an R-based tool called isoSCAN that automatically quantifies all isotopologues of intermediate metabolites of glycolysis, TCA cycle, amino acids, pentose phosphate pathway, and urea cycle, from LRMS and HRMS data.
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- Jordi Capellades
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.,CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Metabolomics Platform, Reus, Spain
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- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.,CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for Vascular Biology, Centre for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.,Christian Doppler Laboratory for Arginine Metabolism in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Vascular Biology, Centre for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.,Christian Doppler Laboratory for Arginine Metabolism in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.,CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Metabolomics Platform, Reus, Spain
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.,CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.,Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Metabolomics Platform, Reus, Spain
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Dugheri S, Mucci N, Cappelli G, Bonari A, Campagna M, Arcangeli G, Bartolucci G. New fully automated gas chromatographic analysis of urinary S-phenylmercapturic acid in isotopic dilution using negative chemical ionization with isobutane as reagent gas. JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY : JMS 2020; 55:e4481. [PMID: 31770470 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The determination of urinary S-phenylmercapturic acid (S-PMA) represents the most reliable biomarker to monitor the intake risk of airborne benzene. Recently, the European Chemical Agency deliberated new occupational exposure limits for benzene and recommended an S-PMA biological limit value of 2-μg/g creatinine. This limit is an order of magnitude lower than the previous one, and its determination constitutes a challenge in the analytical field. We developed and validated a method that allows the fully automated and sensitive determination of S-PMA by the use of gas-chromatography negative chemical ionization tandem mass spectrometry in isotopic dilution. For negative chemical ionization, we selected a mixture of 1% isobutane in argon as reactive gas, by studying its chemical ionization mechanism and optimal parameters compared with pure isobutane or pure methane. This gas mixture produces a more abundant signal of the target analyte than isobutane or methane, and it extended the operative lifetime of the ion source, enabling us to start a high-throughput approach of the S-PMA analysis. Moreover, energy-resolved mass spectrometry experiments were carried out to refine the MS/MS analysis conditions, testing nitrogen and argon as collision gases. The method optimization was pursued by a chemometric model by using the experimental design. The quantification limit for S-PMA was 0.10 μg/L. Accuracy (between 98.3% and 99.6%) and precision (ranging from 1.6% to 6.4%) were also evaluated. In conclusion, the newly developed assay represents a powerful tool for the robust, reliable, and sensitive quantification of urinary S-PMA, and because of its automation, it is well suited for application in large environmental and biological monitoring.
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- Stefano Dugheri
- Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Laboratory, Occupational Medicine Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Medical Science and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy
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- Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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Misra BB, Olivier M. High Resolution GC-Orbitrap-MS Metabolomics Using Both Electron Ionization and Chemical Ionization for Analysis of Human Plasma. J Proteome Res 2020; 19:2717-2731. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- Biswapriya B. Misra
- Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, United States
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- Center for Precision Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Molecular Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, United States
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O'Hair RAJ. Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: 50 Years on. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2016; 27:1787-1788. [PMID: 27619920 DOI: 10.1007/s13361-016-1488-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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- Richard A J O'Hair
- School of Chemistry and Bio21 Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
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