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Salazar Gómez JI, Klucken C, Sojka M, et al. Elucidation of artefacts in proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometers. J Mass Spectrom. 2019;54(12):987-1002doi: 10.1002/jms.4479.
Salazar Gómez, J. I., Klucken, C., Sojka, M., Masliuk, L., Lunkenbein, T., Schlögl, R., & Ruland, H. (2019). Elucidation of artefacts in proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometers. Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS, 54(12), 987-1002. https://doi.org/10.1002/jms.4479
Salazar Gómez, Jorge Iván, et al. "Elucidation of artefacts in proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometers." Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS vol. 54,12 (2019): 987-1002. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jms.4479
Salazar Gómez JI, Klucken C, Sojka M, Masliuk L, Lunkenbein T, Schlögl R, Ruland H. Elucidation of artefacts in proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometers. J Mass Spectrom. 2019 Dec;54(12):987-1002. doi: 10.1002/jms.4479. Epub 2019 Dec 11. PMID: 31758619.
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J Mass Spectrom. 2019 Dec;54(12):987-1002. doi: 10.1002/jms.4479. Epub 2019 Dec 11.

Elucidation of artefacts in proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometers.

Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS

Jorge Iván Salazar Gómez, Christian Klucken, Martha Sojka, Liudmyla Masliuk, Thomas Lunkenbein, Robert Schlögl, Holger Ruland

Affiliations

  1. Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany.
  2. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 31758619 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4479

Abstract

We present an effective procedure to differentiate instrumental artefacts, such as parasitic ions, memory effects, and real trace impurities contained in inert gases. Three different proton transfer reaction mass spectrometers were used in order to identify instrument-specific parasitic ions. The methodology reveals new nitrogen- and metal-containing ions that up to date have not been reported. The parasitic ion signal was dominated by [N

© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Mass Spectrometry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords: artefacts; industrial gases; parasitic ions; proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry; volatile organic compounds

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