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Williams PJH, Chagunda IC, McIndoe JS. OptiMS: An Accessible Program for Automating Mass Spectrometry Parameter Optimization and Configuration. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2024; 35:449-455. [PMID: 38345910 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.3c00354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/07/2024]
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Mass spectrometers have an enormous number of user-changeable parameters that drastically affect the observed mass spectrum. Using optimal parameters can significantly improve mass spectrometric data by increasing signal stability and signal-to-noise ratio, which decreases the limit of detection, thus revealing previously unobservable species. However, ascertaining optimal parameters is time-consuming, tedious, and made further challenging by the fact that parameters can act dependently on each other. Consequently, suboptimal parameters are frequently used during characterization, reducing the quality of results. OptiMS, an open-source, cross-platform program, was developed to simplify, accelerate, and more accurately determine optimal mass spectrometer parameters for a given system. It addresses common difficulties associated with existing software such as slow performance, high costs, and limited functionality. OptiMS efficacy was demonstrated through its application to multiple systems, quickly and successfully optimizing instrument parameters unassisted to maximize a user-defined metric, such as the intensity of a particular analyte. Additionally, among other features, OptiMS allows running of a sequence of predefined parameter configurations, reducing the workload of users wishing to obtain mass spectra under multiple sets of conditions.
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- Peter J H Williams
- Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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Khatoon N, Mallah MA, Yu Z, Qu Z, Ali M, Liu N. Recognition and detection technology for microplastic, its source and health effects. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2024; 31:11428-11452. [PMID: 38183545 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31655-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
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Microplastic (MP) is ubiquitous in the environment which appeared as an immense intimidation to human and animal health. The plastic fragments significantly polluted the ocean, fresh water, food chain, and other food items. Inadequate maintenance, less knowledge of adverse influence along with inappropriate usage in addition throwing away of plastics items revolves present planet in to plastics planet. The present study aims to focus on the recognition and advance detection technologies for MPs and the adverse effects of micro- and nanoplastics on human health. MPs have rigorous adverse effect on human health that leads to condensed growth rates, lessened reproductive capability, ulcer, scrape, and oxidative nervous anxiety, in addition, also disturb circulatory and respiratory mechanism. The detection of MP particles has also placed emphasis on identification technologies such as scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, optical detection, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermo-analytical techniques, flow cytometry, holography, and hyperspectral imaging. It suggests that further research should be explored to understand the source, distribution, and health impacts and evaluate numerous detection methodologies for the MPs along with purification techniques.
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- Nafeesa Khatoon
- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 540001, People's Republic of China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 540001, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 540001, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Chronic Disease Risk Assessment, School of Nursing, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Quaid-E-Awam University of Engineering, Science and Technology (QUEST), Nawabshah, 67480, Sindh, Pakistan
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 540001, People's Republic of China
- Institute of Chronic Disease Risk Assessment, School of Nursing, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475004, People's Republic of China
- Health Science Center, South China Hospital, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518116, People's Republic of China
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Ni K, Dawe LN, Sarjeant AA, Kozak CM. Controlled synthesis of polycarbonate diols and their polylactide block copolymers using amino-bis(phenolate) chromium hydroxide complexes. Dalton Trans 2023; 52:17249-17257. [PMID: 37966801 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt03168c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2023]
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A diamine-bis(phenolate) chromium(III) complex, CrOH[L] ([L] = dimethylaminoethylamino-N,N-bis(2-methylene-4,6-tert-butylphenolate)), 2, in the presence of tetrabutylammonium hydroxide effectively copolymerizes CO2 and cyclohexene oxide (CHO) into a polycarbonate diol. The resultant low molar mass (6.3 kg mol-1) diol is used to initiate ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide with 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU) giving ABA-type block copolymers with good molar mass control through varying rac-LA-to-diol loadings and with narrow dispersities. As the degree of rac-LA incorporation increases, the glass transition temperatures (Tg) are found to decrease, whereas decomposition temperatures (Td) increase. (Diphenylphosphonimido)triphenylphosphorane (Ph2P(O)NPPh3) was used as a neutral nucleophilic cocatalyst with 2, giving phosphorus-containing polycarbonates with an Mn value of 28.5 kg mol-1, a dispersity of 1.13, a Tg value of 110 °C and a Td value of over 300 °C. A related Cr(III) complex (4) having a methoxyethyl pendent group rather than a dimethylaminoethyl group was structurally characterized as a hydroxide-bridged dimer.
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- Kaijie Ni
- Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. W., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada
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- Drug Product Development, Bristol Myers Squibb Company, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, A1C 5S7, Canada.
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Bedard J, Linford-Wood TG, Thompson BC, Werner-Zwanziger U, Marczenko KM, Musgrave RA, Chitnis SS. A Robust, Divalent, Phosphaza-bicyclo[2.2.2]octane Connector Provides Access to Cage-Dense Inorganic Polymers and Networks. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:7569-7579. [PMID: 36961918 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/26/2023]
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While polymers containing chain or ring motifs in their backbone are ubiquitous, those containing well-defined molecular cages are very rare and essentially unknown for the inorganic elements. We report that a rigid and dinucleophilic cage (PNSiMe3)2(NMe)6, which is chemically robust and accessible on a multi-gram scale from commercial precursors, serves as a linear and divalent connector that forms cage-dense inorganic materials. Reaction of the cage with various ditopic P(III) dihalide comonomers proceeded via Me3SiCl elimination to give high molecular weight (30 000-70 000 g mol-1), solution-processable polymers that form free-standing films. The end groups of the polymers could be tuned to engender orthogonal reactivity and form block copolymers. Networked cage-dense materials could be accessed by using PCl3 as a tritopic P(III) linker. Detailed mechanistic studies implicate a stepwise polycondensation that proceeds via phosphino-phosphonium ion intermediates, prior to Me3SiCl loss. Thus, metathesis between the dinucleophilic cage and polyhalides represents a general strategy to making cage-dense polymers, setting the stage for systematically understanding the consequences of the three-dimensional microstructure on macroscopic material properties.
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- Joseph Bedard
- Chemistry Department, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, King's College London, 7 Trinity Street, London SE1 1DB, U.K
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- Chemistry Department, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Chemistry Department, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, King's College London, 7 Trinity Street, London SE1 1DB, U.K
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- Chemistry Department, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada
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Bednarz S, Bujok S, Mielczarek K, Świergosz T, Wierzbicki S, Konefał R, Konefał M, Nevoralová M, Pavlova E, Beneš H. Synthesis of low-molecular weight itaconic acid polymers as nanoclay dispersants and dispersion stabilizers. POLYMER 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2022.125614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Kreyenschmidt F, Eisele NF, Hevelke V, Rahrt R, Kreyenschmidt A, Koszinowski K. In-Situ Analysis of Anionic Coordination Polymerizations by Electrospray-Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022; 61:e202210211. [PMID: 35977914 PMCID: PMC9828445 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202210211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Anionic coordination polymerizations proceed via highly reactive intermediates, whose in situ analysis has remained difficult. Here, we show that electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry is a promising method to obtain detailed information on the polymerization process. Focusing on polymerization reactions of 1,3-dienes initiated by CoCl2 /RLi (R=Me, nBu, tBu, Ph), we directly observe the growing polymer chains and characterize the active anionic cobalt centers by gas-phase fragmentation experiments. On the basis of these results, we suggest a plausible mechanism for the polymerization reaction. Moreover, the ESI mass spectra permit the determination of molecular weight distributions, which are in good agreement with those derived from NMR-spectroscopic as well as MALDI mass-spectrometric measurements, and afford a wealth of kinetic data.
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- Friedrich Kreyenschmidt
- Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare ChemieUniversität GöttingenTammannstraße 237077GöttingenGermany
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- Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare ChemieUniversität GöttingenTammannstraße 237077GöttingenGermany
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- Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare ChemieUniversität GöttingenTammannstraße 237077GöttingenGermany
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- Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare ChemieUniversität GöttingenTammannstraße 237077GöttingenGermany
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- Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare ChemieUniversität GöttingenTammannstraße 237077GöttingenGermany
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Kreyenschmidt F, Eisele NF, Hevelke V, Rahrt R, Kreyenschmidt AK, Koszinowski K. In‐Situ Analysis of Anionic Coordination Polymerizations by Electrospray‐Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202210211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Friedrich Kreyenschmidt
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie GERMANY
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- Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie GERMANY
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- Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie GERMANY
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- Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie GERMANY
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- Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Institut für Organische und Biomolekulare Chemie Tammannstr. 2 37077 Göttingen GERMANY
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Muyizere T, Mukiza J. Progress on the development of a metal salt-assisted ionization source for the mass spectrometric analysis of polymers. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2022; 14:2803-2819. [PMID: 35848110 DOI: 10.1039/d2ay00724j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The mass spectrometric analysis of polymers has been addressed as a challenging research topic due to poor ionization and complicated analysis using conventional mass spectrometry. The ionization source has demonstrated a promising future in rapid mass spectrometric analysis. Soft ionization techniques, such as electrospray ionization (ESI) and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) are the most ionization sources appeared to be a powerful tools for polymer characterization when combined with MS. However, they always need metal salts to be introduced during the ionization protocol for polymers due to the crucial role played by their ions (cations and anions). The current review focuses on the progress in the development of metal ion-assisted-ionization sources for the mass spectrometric analysis of polymers. Different ionization systems are comprehensively reviewed. The application of metal ion-assisted ESI, nanoESI, PSI, and MALDI-MS for polymer sample analyses is systematically discussed. The future research trends and challenges in this cutting-edge research field are summarized. It also aims to provide the current state-of-the-art of metal salts as a platform for ionization systems for the mass spectrometric characterization of polymers and offers the current challenges and perspectives on the promising future to improve analytical performance in this field. Finally, this mini-review provides a comprehensive handbook to researchers from different research backgrounds wishing to work in this area.
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- Theoneste Muyizere
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China
- CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, No. 11 Beiyitiao, Zhongguancun, 100190 Beijing, China.
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- Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority, Kigali 1948, Rwanda.
- School of Education, College of Education, University of Rwanda, P. O. BOX 55, Rwamagana, Rwanda
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Adhikari S, Kelkar V, Kumar R, Halden RU. Methods and challenges in the detection of microplastics and nanoplastics: a mini‐review. POLYM INT 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pi.6348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Sangeet Adhikari
- Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
- School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
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- Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
- School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
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- School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
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- Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
- School of Sustainable Engineering and Built Environment Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
- OneWaterOneHealth Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
- Global Futures Laboratory Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA
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