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Review on atmospheric pressure ionization sources for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Part II: Current
Juan F Ayala-Cabrera1, Lidia Montero1, Sven W Meckelmann1
1Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstr. 5, D-45141, Essen, Germany; Teaching and Research Center for Separation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstr. 5, D-45141, Essen, Germany.
Abstract:
The application of atmospheric pressure ionization (API) sources in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) determinations is becoming more popular since they have shown great capabilities to sort out the main drawbacks of vacuum ionization techniques like electron ionization (EI) and chemical ionization (CI). The development of new API techniques and set-ups have grown in the last decades, opening the field of GC-MS to new applications and facing some of the major issues in current analytical methodologies such as the requirement of a compromise between sensitivity and selectivity. Thus, this review is mainly focused on the use of GC-API-MS in different application fields such as food analysis (food safety and food metabolomics), environmental analysis, clinical analysis, drug and pharmaceutical analysis, and petroleomics, among others. The methodologies have been critically reviewed to compare the performance of different API sources and approaches, highlighting the main contributions to overcoming some of the major limitations of the current methodologies as well as the new perspectives that GC-API-MS might open in the different fields.
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