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dc.contributor.authorRimetz-Planchon, J.
dc.contributor.authorDhooghe, F.
dc.contributor.authorSchoon, N.
dc.contributor.authorVanhaecke, F.
dc.contributor.authorAmelynck, C.
dc.date2011
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-29T12:43:53Z
dc.date.available2016-03-29T12:43:53Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/3122
dc.descriptionA Flowing Afterglow-Tandem Mass Spectrometer (FA-TMS) was used to investigate the feasibility of selective on-line detection of a series of seven sesquiterpenes (SQTs). These SQTs were chemically ionized by either H3O+ or NO+ reagent ions in the FA, resulting among others in protonated SQT and SQT molecular ions, respectively. These and other Chemical Ionization (CI) product ions were subsequently subjected to dissociation by collisions with Ar atoms in the collision cell of the tandem mass spectrometer. The fragmentation spectra show similarities with mass spectra obtained for these compounds with other instruments such as a Proton Transfer Reaction-Linear Ion Trap (PTR-LIT), a Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS), a Triple Quadrupole-Mass Spectrometer (QqQ-MS) and a Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometer (SIFT-MS). Fragmentation of protonated SQT is characterized by fragment ions at the same masses but with different intensities for the individual SQT. Distinction of SQTs is based on well-chosen intensity ratios and collision energies. The fragmentation patterns of SQT molecular ions show specific fragment ion tracers at m/z 119, m/z162, m/z 137 and m/z 131 for α-cedrene, δ-neoclovene, isolongifolene and α-humulene, respectively. Consequently, chemical ionization of SQT by NO+, followed by MS/MS of SQT+ seems to open a way for selective quantification of SQTs in mixtures.
dc.languageeng
dc.titleMS/MS studies on the selective on-line detection of sesquiterpenes using a Flowing Afterglow-Tandem Mass Spectrometer (FA-TMS)
dc.typeArticle
dc.subject.frascatiPhysical sciences
dc.audienceScientific
dc.subject.freecollision
dc.subject.freeionization
dc.subject.freemass spectrometry
dc.subject.freenumerical model
dc.subject.freequalitative analysis
dc.subject.freeterpene
dc.source.titleAtmospheric Measurement Techniques
dc.source.volume4
dc.source.issue4
dc.source.page669-681
Orfeo.peerreviewedYes
dc.identifier.doi10.5194/amt-4-669-2011
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84857776874


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