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Because plasma and urine are both aqueous matrixes, reverse-phase or polar organic mode enantiomeric separations are usually preferred as these approaches usually requires less elaborate sample preparation. Protein-, cyclodextrin-, and macrocyclic glycopeptide-based chiral stationary phases are the most commonly employed CSPs in the reverse phase mode. Also reverse phase and polar organic mode are more compatible mobile phases for mass spectrometers using electrospray ionization. Normal phase enantiomeric separations require more sample preparation (usually with at least one evaporation-to-dryness step). Therefore, normal phase CSPs are only used when a satisfactory enantiomeric separation cannot be obtained in reverse phase or polar organic mode. 

Ionization normally means the removal of an electron from an atom or a molecule. The capture of an electron by a neutral entity may or may not result in a stable negative ion. When it does, the process is called an attachment. The inverse process—that is, the removal of an electron from a negative ion—should, in principle, be called detachment. However, chemists often also call this ionization. 

C) H3PO4 is a triprotic acid that is, there are 3 moles of H+ ions produced for each mole of H3PO4 that completely ionizes. Normality is the number of equivalents per liter. Assuming complete or 100% ionization, a 1-molar HC1 solution is 1 normal. A 1-molar H2S04 solution is 2 normal, and a 1-molar solution of H3P04 is 3 normal. 

Generally, E2 reactions occur with a strong base, which eliminates a proton quicker than the substrate can ionize. Normally, the 8 2 reaction does not compete with E2 since there is steric hindrance around the C—X bond, which retards the 8 2 process. 

Glazer and Smith (1961) have carried out a spectrophotometric titration of the phenolic groups of papain. Of the seventeen phenolic groups known to be present, eleven to twelve ionize normally (pKint = 9.8). The remainder ionize only upon denaturation, which takes place only slowly in the range of pH 12 to 13. 

The mechanism for separation of sulfate, chloride and nitrate is not entirely clear. Anions that are completely ionized normally cannot be separated by an ion-exclusion process. A weak hydrophobic effect might account for the slight differences in retention of these anions. 

This method is suitable for small molecules of molecular weights up to 400 Daltons only. This is because of the involatility of the large molecules and thermed decomposition during vaporization. The excessive fragmentation in the ionization source is also a problem associated with this method. On summary, this is not a method suitable for macromolecules. However, this is one of the most used methods for small molecules. Electron ionization normally serves as a detector for gas chromatography analysis of hydrocarbons, pharmaceutical compounds, psychotropic drugs and synthetic organic molecules. 

The purpose of the ion source, as the term implies, is to provide the energy necessary to ionize the analyte molecules, while being maintained at a temperature high enough to prevent analyte condensation. In addition, electrostatic focusing lenses are usually included to accelerate the ions and collimate the ion beam. The two types of ionization normally used in GCMS are electron ionization (El) and chemical ionization (Cl). The specifics of their operation are covered in Sections 7.3 and 7.4, respectively. 

The mass spectrum is a fingerprint for each compound because no two molecules are fragmented and ionized in exactly the same manner on electron-impact ionization. In reporting mass spectra the data are normalized by assigning the most intense peak (denoted as base peak) a value of 100. Other peaks are reported as percentages of the base peak. 

By using a beam of fast atoms or ions incident onto a nonvolatile liquid containing a sample substance, good molecular or quasi-molecular positive and/or negative ion peaks can be observed up to about 4000-5000 Da. Ionization is mild, and, since it is normally carried out at 25-35°C, it can be used for thermally labile substances such as peptides and sugars. 

Application of an electric field between two metal electrodes causes a few ions and electrons to be desorbed and is surface or thermal emission (see Chapter 7 for more information on thermal ionization). Unless the electrodes are heated strongly, the number of electrons emitted is very small, but, even at normal temperatures, this emission does add to the small number of electrons caused by cosmic radiation and is continuous. 

One of the first successful techniques for selectively removing solvent from a solution without losing the dissolved solute was to add the solution dropwise to a moving continuous belt. The drops of solution on the belt were heated sufficiently to evaporate the solvent, and the residual solute on the belt was carried into a normal El (electron ionization) or Cl (chemical ionization) ion source, where it was heated more strongly so that it in turn volatilized and could be ionized. However, the moving-belt system had some mechanical problems and could be temperamental. The more recent, less-mechanical inlets such as electrospray have displaced it. The electrospray inlet should be compared with the atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization (APCI) inlet, which is described in Chapter 9. 

For mixture.s the picture is different. Unless the mixture is to be examined by MS/MS methods, usually it will be necessary to separate it into its individual components. This separation is most often done by gas or liquid chromatography. In the latter, small quantities of emerging mixture components dissolved in elution solvent would be laborious to deal with if each component had to be first isolated by evaporation of solvent before its introduction into the mass spectrometer. In such circumstances, the direct introduction, removal of solvent, and ionization provided by electrospray is a boon and puts LC/MS on a level with GC/MS for mixture analysis. Further, GC is normally concerned with volatile, relatively low-molecular-weight compounds and is of little or no use for the many polar, water soluble, high-molecular-mass substances such as the peptides, proteins, carbohydrates, nucleotides, and similar substances found in biological systems. LC/MS with an electrospray interface is frequently used in biochemical research and medical analysis. 

To examine a sample by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP/MS) or inductively coupled plasma atomic-emission spectroscopy (ICP/AES) the sample must be transported into the flame of a plasma torch. Once in the flame, sample molecules are literally ripped apart to form ions of their constituent elements. These fragmentation and ionization processes are described in Chapters 6 and 14. To introduce samples into the center of the (plasma) flame, they must be transported there as gases, as finely dispersed droplets of a solution, or as fine particulate matter. The various methods of sample introduction are described here in three parts — A, B, and C Chapters 15, 16, and 17 — to cover gases, solutions (liquids), and solids. Some types of sample inlets are multipurpose and can be used with gases and liquids or with liquids and solids, but others have been designed specifically for only one kind of analysis. However, the principles governing the operation of inlet systems fall into a small number of categories. This chapter discusses specifically substances that are normally liquids at ambient temperatures. This sort of inlet is the commonest in analytical work. 

The term nebulizer is used generally as a description for any spraying device, such as the hair spray mentioned above. It is normally applied to any means of forming an aerosol spray in which a volume of liquid is broken into a mist of vapor and small droplets and possibly even solid matter. There is a variety of nebulizer designs for transporting a solution of analyte in droplet form to a plasma torch in ICP/MS and to the inlet/ionization sources used in electrospray and mass spectrometry (ES/MS) and atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization and mass spectrometry (APCI/MS). 

Some mild methods of ionization (e.g., chemical ionization. Cl fast-atom bombardment, FAB electrospray, ES) provide molecular or quasi-molecular ions with so little excess of energy that little or no fragmentation takes place. Thus, there are few, if any, normal fragment ions, and metastable ions are virtually nonexistent. Although these mild ionization techniques are ideal for yielding molecular mass information, they are almost useless for providing details of molecular structure, a decided disadvantage. 

Metastable ions yield valuable information on fragmentation in mass spectrometry, providing insight into molecular structure. In electron ionization, metastable ions appear naturally along with the much more abundant normal ions. Abundances of metastable ions can be enhanced by collisionally induced decomposition. 

As described above, the mobile phase carrying mixture components along a gas chromatographic column is a gas, usually nitrogen or helium. This gas flows at or near atmospheric pressure at a rate generally about 0,5 to 3.0 ml/min and evenmally flows out of the end of the capillary column into the ion source of the mass spectrometer. The ion sources in GC/MS systems normally operate at about 10 mbar for electron ionization to about 10 mbar for chemical ionization. This large pressure... 

As each mixture component elutes and appears in the ion source, it is normally ionized either by an electron beam (see Chapter 3, Electron Ionization ) or by a reagent gas (see Chapter I, Chemical Ionization ), and the resulting ions are analyzed by the mass spectrometer to give a mass spectmm (Figure 36.4). 

For solids, there is now a very wide range of inlet and ionization opportunities, so most types of solids can be examined, either neat or in solution. However, the inlet/ionization methods are often not simply interchangeable, even if they use the same mass analyzer. Thus a direct-insertion probe will normally be used with El or Cl (and desorption chemical ionization, DCl) methods of ionization. An LC is used with ES or APCI for solutions, and nebulizers can be used with plasma torches for other solutions. MALDI or laser ablation are used for direct analysis of solids. 

Chemical ionization produces quasi-molecular or protonated molecular ions that do not fragment as readily as the molecular ions formed by electron ionization. Therefore, Cl spectra are normally simpler than El spectra in that they contain abundant quasi-molecular ions and few fragment ions. It is advantageous to run both Cl and El spectra on the same compound to obtain complementary information. 

The ablated vapors constitute an aerosol that can be examined using a secondary ionization source. Thus, passing the aerosol into a plasma torch provides an excellent means of ionization, and by such methods isotope patterns or ratios are readily measurable from otherwise intractable materials such as bone or ceramics. If the sample examined is dissolved as a solid solution in a matrix, the rapid expansion of the matrix, often an organic acid, covolatilizes the entrained sample. Proton transfer from the matrix occurs to give protonated molecular ions of the sample. Normally thermally unstable, polar biomolecules such as proteins give good yields of protonated ions. This is the basis of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI). 

By measuring a mass spectrum of normal ions and then finding the links between ions from the metastable ions, it becomes easier to deduce the molecular structure of the substance that was ionized originally. 

A normal, routine electron ionization mass spectrum represents the m/z values and abundances of molecular and fragment ions derived from one or more substances. 

Fig. 3. (a) Flame ionization detector (fid) response to an extract of commercially processed Valencia orange juice, (b) Gas chromatography—olfactometry (geo) chromatogram of the same extract. The abscissa in both chromatograms is a normal paraffin retention index scale ranging between hexane and octadecane (Kovats index). Dilution value in the geo is the -fold that the extract had to be diluted until odor was no longer detectable at each index. 

Aluminum hydroxide and aluminum chloride do not ionize appreciably in solution but behave in some respects as covalent compounds. The aluminum ion has a coordination number of six and in solution binds six molecules of water existing as [Al(H20)g]. On addition of a base, substitution of the hydroxyl ion for the water molecule proceeds until the normal hydroxide results and precipitation is observed. Dehydration is essentially complete at pH 7. 

Ring closure of o-benzoylbenzoic acid to anthraquinone is an unusual reaction in that normally it is not predicted to occur ortho to a keto group. Several theories have been proposed to explain the mechanism whereby this could possibly occur. One involves a complex ionization of o-benzoylbenzoic acid (41), the other favors the intermediate formation of 3-hydroxy-3-phenyl-l(3JT)isobenzofuranone (9) [64693-03-4] and 3-phenylphthaHdyl sulfate (10) (42) ... 

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