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Mass Spectrometry Flashcards

1
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What type of techniques does GCMS combine?

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Chromatographic and spectral

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2
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where is the column directly inserted into?

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MS ionization chamber

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3
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Why do all interface devices contain a heat source?

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To prevent analyte condensation within the transfer line

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4
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What must this heat not cause?

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Thermal decomposition of analyte

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5
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Name 3 advantages of direct capillary interface?

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Low cost, no dead volume, no selectivity

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What are 3 disadvantages of direct capillary interface?

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limits flow range that column can use, limits ID of column that can be used, part of column is ‘lost’ - serves as a flow restrictor

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7
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volatile substances can be ionised by electron impact ionisation by interacting with what?

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an electron beam generated by a heated filament in the ion

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8
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why are internal standards necessary in GC?

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due to the need for normalisation due to volume changes

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9
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What does adding a fixed concentration of IS to each standard mean for calibration?

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calibration can be carried out using peak area ratio and thus ignores changes in injection volume

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10
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What is the injection volume of LC?

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10-50uL

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11
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Why is the precision better in LC than GC?

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a fixed volume loop is filled with sample and only this amount goes on every time

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12
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why is it common in both LC and GC to extract samples prior to analysis?

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due to a need for preconcentration or because the sample matrix is not appropriate for chromatographic system

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13
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What is commonly done prior to extraction to compensate for the sample being lost?

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addition of an internal standard

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14
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What is the advantage of considering peak area ratios instead of peak area?

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normalisation is achieved and precision and accuracy are better

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15
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In LC and GC, why must the internal standard be separated from the analyte?

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For an internal standard to be of use otherwise you could not distinguish area representing each

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16
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why is this one of the most difficult tasks for a chromatographer?

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because the internal standard must have similair chromatographic properties as the analyte and be able to be detected in the same way

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17
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what is deuterium

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a stable isotope of hydrogen depicted as 2H, has a mass of 2

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18
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what are 2 important characteristics a deuterated standard should have

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should coelute with compound to be quantified, should also contain enough mass to show a signal outside the natural mass distribution of the analyte

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19
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what are the 2 most common interfaces used in HPLC?

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electrospray ionisation and atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation

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20
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what is the more recently used interface in HPLC?

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Atmospheric pressure photo ionisation

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21
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in electrospray ionisation, what flow rate is the analyte typically intoduced at?

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1uL min-1

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22
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The analyte solution flow passes through the electrospray needle that has high potential difference applied to it - what does this cause?

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This forces the spraying of charged droplets from the needle with a surface charge of the same polarity to the charge on the needle

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23
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what are the droplets repelled towards from the needle?

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source sampling cone on counter electrode

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24
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What occurs as the droples traverse the space between the needle tip and cone?

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solvent evaporation

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25
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What happens to the droplet as solvent evaporation occurs?

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it shrinks until it reaches the point that surface tension can no longer sustain the charge (rayleigh limit)

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26
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This causes a ‘coulombic explosion’ to occur, what does this do to the droplet?

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it is ripped apart, causing smaller droplets which can repeat the process

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27
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what makes this method of ionisation very soft?

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very little residual energy is retained by the analyte upon ionisation

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28
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what is a major disadvantage to electrospray ionisation?

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very little fragmentation is produced

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29
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how might this be overcome?

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with the use of tandem mass spectrometric techniques such as MS/MS

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30
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What is Atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation suitable/not suitable for?

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suitable for low mass compounds, not suitable for thermally liable compounds.

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31
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In APCI, what is the analyte solution introduced to?

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a pneumatic nebulizer

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32
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What is the analyte then desolvated in?

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heated quartz tube

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33
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What does the analyte then interact with? What does this create?

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The corona discharge - creates ions

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34
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what does the corona discharge replace in Cl?

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the electron filament

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35
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what does this produce?

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Primary ions; N2 and N4 by electron ionisation

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36
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What do these primary ions collide with to form secondary reactant gas ions; H3O and (H2O)nH+?

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the vaporized solvent

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37
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What causes the formation of analyte ions

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reactant gas ions colliding with analyte

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38
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What does high frequency of collisions result in? 2

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High ionisation efficiency and thermalisation of the analyte ions

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39
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What will the resulting spectra look like?

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predominently molecular species and adduct ions with very little fragmentation

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40
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What do the ions enter after forming? is this similair to ESI?

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the pumping and focussing stage in a similair way as ESI

41
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In Atmospheric pressire photo ionisation (APPI), what does the discharge lamp generate?

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photons in a narrow range of ionization energies

42
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why is the range of energies carefully chosen?

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to ionize as many analyte molecules as possible while minimising ionisation of solvent molecules

43
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out of electrospray and APPI, which is more complicated in terms of ion production?

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APPI

44
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What are the 2 ways that radical ions can be produced in APPI?

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direcctly or via an intermediate using a dopant

45
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what is the fundamental process in photoionisation?

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the absorption of a high energy photon by the molecule and subsequent ejection of an electron

46
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In direct APPI, this process occurs for the analyte molecule, forming what?

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molecular radical cation M+

47
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The analyte radical cation can be detected as M+ or……?

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it can react with surrounding molecules and be detected as another ion

48
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What is the most common reaction?

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The abstraction of a hydrogen atom from the abundent solvent

49
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what does this reaction form?

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form the stable [M+H]+ cation, which is usually the observed ion

50
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In dopant APPI (or photoionization-induced APCI) a quantity of photoionizable molecules are introduced to what?

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the sample stream to create a source of charged carriers

51
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Give 2 examples of a photoionizable molecule?

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toluene or acetone

52
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what can be used to give the same effect?

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A photoionizable solvent

53
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What do the dopant or solvent ions react with? and via what reactions?

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neutral analyte molecules via proton transfer or charge exchange reactions

54
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How can APPI produce negative ions? 2

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By creating alot of thermal electrons from dopant or solvent ionization, or by photons striking metal surfaces in the ionization source

55
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How do mobile phase additives affect the analysis? (2)

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purity and composition

56
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what do polymers, including proteins and DNA, form adducts with?

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inorganic salts

57
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What does this lead to?

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complicated mass spectra and a broad distribution of multiply-charged sodium, potassium and chloride adducts

58
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Reagents, chemicals, sample preparation and post column additives always present what risk to the analysis?

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contamination

59
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Why are alkali ions, plasticizers and surfactants particularly problematic?

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As they are widespread and interfere strongly with LC-MS by causing higher background noise and the formation of adducts

60
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give 4 examples of additives used in LC-MS?

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Formic acid, Acetic acid, ammonium formate, ammonium acetate, ammonium hydroxide solution

61
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what are small organic acids commonly added to influence?

A

analyte ionization

62
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Name a reason for formic and acetic acid’s widespread use in terms of separation?

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separation benefits in terms of retention and/or peak shape under acidic conditions

63
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why is this?

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because any silanol activity is suppressed

64
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Most mass spectrometric measurements are done in positive ion mode, which is accomplished by the addition of a proton to form the molecular ion [M+H]+. Why can formic and acetic acid readily fulfil this purpose?

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They have necessary acidity and volatility to provide an excess of cations for this purpose

65
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why do mobile phases for HPLC of proteins and peptides usually contain trifluoroacetic acid? 2

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to contol pH and improve peak shape and resolution

66
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How does it enhance retention and improve peak shape?

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By ion-pairing with the peptide and reducing silanol interactions

67
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what does TFA’s high surface tension prevent?

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efficient spray formation

68
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TFA ions in gas phase ion-pair with peptide’s basic group, what does this then suppress?

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Their ionisation and reduces the MS signal

69
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If TFA cant be avoided, what can be added to reduce its effects?

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small organic acids known as triple blends

70
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what might the addition of a triple blend improve (1) and weaken (2)?

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signal improves, resolution and sensitivity poorer

71
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why might it be necessary to use more neutral conditions in some circumstances?

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may be because the analytes are sensitive to acids or do not exhibit optimal resolution at low pH

72
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Give 2 examples of volatile salts that can be used when acids are not suitable?

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ammonium formate or ammonium acetate

73
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Their use is much more complicaed than acids, what are the 3 issues they may cause?

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Limited solubility of salts in organic solvents, changing pH during a gradient run, the acidic pH provided by salts permits both + and - ion mode detection

74
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the main issue concerns the solubility. Why is its lack of solubility in acetonitrile a problem?

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acetonitrile is the organic solvent of choice for most separations

75
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What is used to stabilise the special blend containing 0.1% w/v of ammonium acetate in acetonitrile?

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acid

76
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what are the 3 desirable effects of this?

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salt is kept in a solution, solution is stable against decomposition and keeps the pH in the mildly acid range

77
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What is tandem mass spectrometry

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hyphenated technique with more than one mass spectrometer used together

78
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What is the first MS used for?

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to separate or isolate molecular ions of various analytes in a mixture

79
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What is the second MS called and used for?

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its known as collision cell and molecular ions are fragmented

80
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What is the 3rd MS used for?

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Scans for fragments of the molecular ion

81
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What is the first quadrouple (MS1) in a tandem situation usually equipped with?

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a soft ionisation technique (eg electrospray
ionisation)

82
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Not much fragmentation takes place here, resulting in what?

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the production of only the molecular ion or protonated molecular ions

83
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When the ions are passed to the second quadrouple, they enter a field free collision chamber. What gas is pumped through?

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Helium

84
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What does the term field free mean?

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The quadrouple is operated in radio-frequency-only-mode and no dc potential is applied across the rods

85
Q

This mode provides and excellent method of focussing the ……… ….. but does not act as an ….. …….?

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Scattered ions, ion filter

86
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The collisions of the fast-moving parent ions and argon atoms cause what?

A

Further fragmentation of parent ions or precursor ions

87
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What does this give?

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daughter ions

88
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What happens in the third quadrouple

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The spectrum of daughter ions is then scanned

89
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For quantitative analysis of target compounds, what mode is the third MS operated in?

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the selected-reaction monitoring mode

90
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What is selected reaction monitoring?

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a non-scanning MS technique performed on tandem mass spectrometers

91
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Collision-induced dissociation is used as a means to increase what?

A

selectivity

92
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In SRM, what are the 2 mass analyzers used as?

A

static mass filters

93
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What are these used to monitor?

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a particular fragment ion of a selected precursor ion

94
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What are the specific pair of m/z values associated to the precursor and fragment (daughter) ions selected referred to as?

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a transition and can be written as a parent m/z > fragment m/z

95
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In SRM analysis, there is generally no mass spectra recorded. Instead the detector acts as a counting device for what?

A

ions matching selected transition thereby returning an intensity value over time

96
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How can multiple reaction monitoring and selective reaction monitoring be measured at the same time on the chromatographic time scale?

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by rapidly toggling between the different precursor/fragment (daughter) pairs

97
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How does the method allow for additional selectivity?

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By monitoring the chromatographic coelution of multiple transitions for a given analyte

98
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analytical chemistry (8 decks)

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