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Using collision-induced dissociation to constrain sensitivity of ammonia chemical ionization mass spectrometry ( NH4+ CIMS) to oxygenated volatile organic compounds.


ABSTRACT: Chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS) instruments routinely detect hundreds of oxidized organic compounds in the atmosphere. A major limitation of these instruments is the uncertainty in their sensitivity to many of the detected ions. We describe the development of a new high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer that operates in one of two ionization modes: using either ammonium ion ligand-switching reactions such as for NH4+ CIMS or proton transfer reactions such as for protontransfer-reaction mass spectrometer (PTR-MS). Switching between the modes can be done within 2min. The NH4+ CIMS mode of the new instrument has sensitivities of up to 67 000 dcps ppbv-1 (duty-cycle-corrected ion counts per second per part per billion by volume) and detection limits between 1 and 60 pptv at 2? for a 1 s integration time for numerous oxygenated volatile organic compounds. We present a mass spectrometric voltage scanning procedure based on collision-induced dissociation that allows us to determine the stability of ammonium-organic ions detected by the NH4+ CIMS instrument. Using this procedure, we can effectively constrain the sensitivity of the ammonia chemical ionization mass spectrometer to a wide range of detected oxidized volatile organic compounds for which no calibration standards exist. We demonstrate the application of this procedure by quantifying the composition of secondary organic aerosols in a series of laboratory experiments.

SUBMITTER: Zaytsev A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7094031 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Using collision-induced dissociation to constrain sensitivity of ammonia chemical ionization mass spectrometry ( N H 4 + CIMS) to oxygenated volatile organic compounds.

Zaytsev Alexander A   Breitenlechner Martin M   Koss Abigail R AR   Lim Christopher Y CY   Rowe James C JC   Kroll Jesse H JH   Keutsch Frank N FN  

Atmospheric measurement techniques 20190320 3


Chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS) instruments routinely detect hundreds of oxidized organic compounds in the atmosphere. A major limitation of these instruments is the uncertainty in their sensitivity to many of the detected ions. We describe the development of a new high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer that operates in one of two ionization modes: using either ammonium ion ligand-switching reactions such as for N H 4 + CIMS or proton transfer reactio  ...[more]

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