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Area of Science:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Environmental Science
  • Atmospheric Chemistry

Background:

  • Nontargeted analysis (NTA) using liquid chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry offers comprehensive molecular profiling of complex mixtures.
  • Quantifying unknown compounds in NTA remains a significant challenge, limiting detailed chemical characterization.
  • Accurate quantification is essential for understanding the composition and sources of atmospheric organic aerosols.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel semi-quantitative methodology for the NTA of organic aerosol.
  • To address the challenge of quantifying unknown compounds by utilizing average ionization efficiencies.
  • To compare the performance of the new method against traditional approaches for biomass burning organic aerosol (BBOA).

Main Methods:

  • A semi-quantitative approach was developed using 110 authentic standards to define 25 retention time windows.
  • Quantification of unknown analytes was based on the average ionization efficiency within their respective retention time windows.
  • The method was validated using extracts from biomass burning organic aerosol (BBOA).

Main Results:

  • The semi-quantitative method achieved an average prediction error of 1.52 times when compared to authentic standard quantification.
  • Approximately 70% of concentrations were estimated within a factor of 2 of the authentic standard values.
  • For organonitrogen (CHON) species, the new method showed a significantly lower prediction error (1.63) compared to predictive ionization efficiency methods (14.94).

Conclusions:

  • The proposed semi-quantitative method provides a robust approach for the NTA of organic aerosols, particularly for oxygenated (CHO) and organonitrogen (CHON) species.
  • Ignoring ionization differences in NTA can lead to significant misinterpretations of relative abundances and source apportionment.
  • This method highlights the importance of accounting for ionization variability in complex mixture analysis.