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Quantitative Metabolomics of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Using Liquid Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Published on: January 5, 2021
Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation: A Means of Ion Activation for Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Alexandre Giuliani1,2, Jonathan P Williams3, Martin R Green3
1Synchrotron SOLEIL , L'Orme des Merisiers , Gif-sur-Yvette F-91190 , France.
Abstract:
Tandem mass spectrometry has long been established as a corner stone of analytical and structural chemistry. Fast radical-directed dissociation, produced by electron-transfer and electron-capture dissociation (ETD and ECD) has been shown to provide important complementary information to collision-induced dissociation (CID). We report the first application of extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) lamps to tandem mass spectrometry. These discharge lamps are versatile, robust, and low-cost sources of energetic photons (40-80 nm). The coupling of the discharge lamp with a Waters Synapt G2-Si Q-ToF mass spectrometer is achieved through a specific trapping scheme in the TriWave region of the instrument, allowing efficient irradiation of the precursor ions. Rich radical-directed dissociation was produced for a number of model compounds, providing unique, complementary information to existing dissociation techniques.
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