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Koppenaal DW, Marcus RK. Coupling of the Liquid Sampling-Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge to Orbitrap Mass Analyzers for Uranium Isotope Ratio Analysis: Evolution of the Methodology and Implications to the Field. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2023; 77:885-906. [PMID: 36636789 DOI: 10.1177/00037028221147927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Just over a decade ago, a truly outside-of-the-box approach to isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) was undertaken between research groups at Clemson University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The original motivation dealt with projections as to whether or not microplasmas could be developed into practical elemental ionization sources, perhaps for transportable analysis applications. In particular, the use of the liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge (LS-APGD) was pursued. Its interfacing to an ultra-high resolution Orbitrap platform, proved not only facile, but opened up a wealth of potential applications. Here, we lay out a historical, tutorial description of the interfacing and the evolution of the methodology regarding IRMS of uranium. Practical challenges and opportunities are described, which hopefully provide guidance to further applications in high resolution IRMS. It is hoped that, while detailed and lengthy, the didactic nature of the presentation provides experimental insights and tips, and also serves as an homage to our very good friend, Professor Gary M. Hieftje, whose scientific inspiration and comradery have been immeasurably important in our own careers.
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Kenneth Marcus R, Hoegg ED, Hall KA, Williams TJ, Koppenaal DW. Combined atomic and molecular (CAM) ionization with the liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge microplasma. MASS SPECTROMETRY REVIEWS 2023; 42:652-673. [PMID: 34346101 DOI: 10.1002/mas.21720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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In a world where information-rich methods of analysis are often sought over those with superior figures of merit, there is a constant search for ionization methods which can be applied across diverse analytical systems. The liquid sampling-atmospheric pressure glow discharge (LS-APGD) is a microplasma device which has the inherent capabilities to operate as a combined atomic and molecular (CAM) ionization source. The plasma is sustained by placement of a high voltage (~500 V, dc) onto an electrolytic solution through which the analyte is generally delivered to the discharge. Judicious choice of the solvent provides a means of obtaining atomic/elemental and/or molecular mass spectra. Presented here are the diverse modes of sample introduction and mass spectrometer platforms to which the LS-APGD has been interfaced. Likewise, representative spectra and figures of merit are presented towards elemental and isotope ratio measurements, as well as application to small organic molecules, organometallic complexes, and intact proteins. It is believed that the diversity of analytical applications and ready implementation across the entirety of mass spectrometry platforms portends a level of versatility not realized with other ionization sources.
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- R Kenneth Marcus
- Department of Chemistry, Biosystems Research Complex, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Biosystems Research Complex, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Biosystems Research Complex, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Biosystems Research Complex, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
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- Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA
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Hoegg ED, Godin S, Szpunar J, Lobinski R, Koppenaal DW, Marcus RK. Resolving Severe Elemental Isobaric Interferences with a Combined Atomic and Molecular Ionization Source-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry Approach: The 87Sr and 87Rb Geochronology Pair. Anal Chem 2021; 93:11506-11514. [PMID: 34375523 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01795] [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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Many fields of basic and applied sciences, including geochronology, astronomy, metabolism, etc., rely on the ability of mass spectrometry to obtain isotope ratio measurements having a high degree of certainty. The inability to resolve difficult isobaric interferences plagues certain measurements. A combined atomic and molecular (CAM) ionization source has been interfaced to a high-field Orbitrap mass spectrometer to alleviate severe atomic, isobaric interferences. This work examines the geochronologically significant 87Sr and 87Rb isotope pair. The mass difference between 87Sr and 87Rb is approximately 0.3 mDa, requiring a minimum resolving power (R = m/Δm) of ∼290,000, a value ∼30× higher than available with sector-field elemental mass spectrometers. Under ultrahigh-resolution conditions, Sr isotope ratio accuracy and precision were evaluated using NIST Sr SRM 987, yielding precision values of <0.1% relative standard deviation (RSD) for the major isotopes and a calculated LOD of 2 pg mL-1 (120 fg of Sr for a 60 μL injection). In addition to manipulating the signal transient length, the total number of ions in the electrostatic trap and the 87Sr/87Rb concentration ratio were found to influence resolution. Ultimately, the isotopes were baseline-resolved with a calculated mass resolution of >1.7M. At equal 87Sr and 87Rb intensities, 87Sr/86Sr was measured as 0.71294 (a relative error of only 0.37%) with a precision of 0.097% RSD, clearly reflecting the alleviation of the isobaric interference.
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- Edward D Hoegg
- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States.,Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, EMSL, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- CNRS, Institute for Analytical & Physical Chemistry of the Environment & Materials, UPPA, IPREM, UMR 5254, Helioparc 2, Av Pr Angot, Pau F-64053, France
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- CNRS, Institute for Analytical & Physical Chemistry of the Environment & Materials, UPPA, IPREM, UMR 5254, Helioparc 2, Av Pr Angot, Pau F-64053, France
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- CNRS, Institute for Analytical & Physical Chemistry of the Environment & Materials, UPPA, IPREM, UMR 5254, Helioparc 2, Av Pr Angot, Pau F-64053, France
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, EMSL, 902 Battelle Blvd., Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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Inorganic Mass Spectrometry. Mass Spectrom (Tokyo) 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-54398-7_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Hanousek O, Rottmann L, Prohaska T. Mass Resolution. SECTOR FIELD MASS SPECTROMETRY FOR ELEMENTAL AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849735407-00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The ability to achieve a high mass resolution is the biggest benefit of a sector field mass spectrometer compared to instruments equipped with other mass analyzers. Therefore, a chapter presenting definitions of mass resolution, achievement of high resolution, typical signal peak shapes for each of mass resolution mode, as well as alternative ways to achieve high mass resolution have a fixed place in a book on magnetic field mass spectrometry. Mass resolution may be defined as an ability to separate two ion signals in a mass spectrum. To increase mass resolution, usually the width of slits is varied. An alteration of a slit width causes a change in ion beam width, and, as a consequence, a change in the shape of a measured signal peak. Therefore, a low resolution peak shape differs from a high resolution peak shape. An edge resolution peak shape is often achieved with multicollector devices. Different ways to calculate a numerical value of the mass resolution are presented.
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- Ondrej Hanousek
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Department of Chemistry, Division of Analytical Chemistry, VIRIS Laboratory for Analytical Ecogeochemistry Tulln Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Department of Chemistry, Division of Analytical Chemistry, VIRIS Laboratory for Analytical Ecogeochemistry Tulln Austria
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Gross JH. Inorganic Mass Spectrometry. Mass Spectrom (Tokyo) 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10711-5_15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Short transient signals, a challenge for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, a review. Anal Chim Acta 2009; 633:19-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2008.11.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2008] [Revised: 11/17/2008] [Accepted: 11/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Hattendorf B, Günther D, Schönbächler M, Halliday A. Simultaneous ultratrace determination of Zr and Nb in chromium matrixes with ICP-dynamic reaction cell MS. Anal Chem 2001; 73:5494-8. [PMID: 11816579 DOI: 10.1021/ac015549a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A dynamic reaction cell (DRC) has been used to minimize the formation of metal-argide ions in inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and applied to the determination of Zr and Nb in Cr-rich samples. The formation of ArCr+ species from the plasma gas and the sample matrix was reduced by ion molecule reactions inside a DRC of the ICPMS used. Hydrogen was used as reaction gas, and the efficiency in the reduction of ArCr+ was similar to that of other plasma-based polyatomic ions as reported in an earlier study. The formation of CrOx+ ions is enhanced when the DRC is operated in pressurized mode. Adjustment of the transmission properties of the band-pass quadrupole to reject precursor ions can be achieved without dramatic decrease of sensitivity but with a significant improvement in the signal/background ratio. Measurements in solutions containing concentrations of up to 2 g/L Cr showed that the determination of Nb and Zr is possible in the nanogram per liter range in such a matrix. The limits of detection for Nb and Zr in pure Cr metal have been estimated at 2 ng/g for Nb and 5 ng/g for Zr. Analysis of basaltic reference samples resulted in very good agreement with previously published data.
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Higuchi H, Ishikura T, Mori K, Takayama Y, Yamamoto K, Tani K, Miyabayashi K, Miyake M. Synthesis and Properties of Head-to-head, Head-to-tail, and Tail-to-tail Orientational Isomers of Extended Dihexylbithiophene–Octaethylporphyrin System [OEP–(DHBT)n–OEP] Connected with 1,3-Butadiyne Linkages. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2001. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.74.889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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There have been many new and exciting developments in mass spectrometer systems in recent years. Many of these developments are being driven by challenges presented by molecular biology. The activity is fueled by resources being devoted to drug development, for example, and other medically and biologically related activities. Progress in these applications will be accelerated by improved sensitivity, specificity, and speed. In mass spectrometry, this translates to greater mass resolving power, mass accuracy, mass-to-charge range, efficiency, and speed. It is safe to say that the demands resulting from current analytical needs are likely to be met to varying degrees but probably not by a single analyzer technology or hybrid instrument. On-line and/or off-line separations and manipulations combined with mass spectrometry will also play increasingly important roles. For any analyzer, or combination of analyzers, to become widely used it must have an important application for which its figures of merit are best suited, relative to competing approaches. The relative cost of competing technologies is also an important factor. The mass filter has seen so much use in the past 30 years because its characteristics best fit a wide range of applications. As an example, biological applications, which are currently driving many instrument development activities in mass spectrometry, demand more information, of higher quality, from less material, faster, and at lower cost. Which technologies will dominate biological applications in the coming years is open to speculation. However, in considering the relative merits of today's dominant mass analyzers, areas of opportunity for improvement are apparent. Furthermore, new and more demanding measurement needs are constantly being recognized that will continue to exercise the creativity of the mass spectrometry community.
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- S A McLuckey
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1393, USA.
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Mahoney PP, Ray SJ, Li G, Hieftje GM. Preliminary investigation of electrothermal vaporization sample introduction for inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 1999; 71:1378-83. [PMID: 10204039 DOI: 10.1021/ac9811625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The coupling of an electrothermal vaporization (ETV) apparatus to an inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometer (ICP-TOFMS) is described. The ability of the ICP-TOFMS to produce complete elemental mass spectra at high repetition rates is experimentally demonstrated. A signal-averaging data acquisition board is employed to rapidly record complete elemental spectra throughout the vaporization stage of the ETV temperature cycle; a solution containing 34 elements is analyzed. The reduction of both molecular and atomic isobaric interferences through the temperature program of the furnace is demonstrated. Isobaric overlaps among the isotopes of cadmium, tin, and indium are resolved by exploiting differences in the vaporization characteristics of the elements. Figures of merit for the system are defined with several different data acquisition schemes capable of operating at the high repetition rate of the TOF instrument. With the use of both ion counting and a boxcar averager, the dynamic range is shown to be linear over a range of at least 6 orders of magnitude. A pair of boxcar averagers are used to measure the isotope ratio for silver with a precision of 1.9% RSD, despite a cycle-to-cycle precision of 19% RSD. Detection limits of 10-80 fg are calculated for seven elements, based upon a 10-microL injection.
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- P P Mahoney
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington 47405, USA
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Affiliation(s)
- A L Burlingame
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0446, USA
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