Journalartikel

Isobar Separation in a Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer by Mass-Selective Re-Trapping


AutorenlisteDickel, Timo; Plass, Wolfgang R.; Lippert, Wayne; Lang, Johannes; Yavor, Mikhail I.; Geissel, Hans; Scheidenberger, Christoph

Jahr der Veröffentlichung2017

Seiten1079-1090

ZeitschriftJournal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Bandnummer28

Heftnummer6

ISSN1044-0305

eISSN1879-1123

DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-017-1617-z

VerlagAmerican Chemical Society


Abstract
A novel method for (ultra-)high-resolution spatial mass separation in time-of-flight mass spectrometers is presented. Ions are injected into a time-of-flight analyzer from a radio frequency (rf) trap, dispersed in time-of-flight according to their mass-to-charge ratios and then re-trapped dynamically in the same rf trap. This re-trapping technique is highly mass-selective and after sufficiently long flight times can provide even isobaric separation. A theoretical treatment of the method is presented and the conditions for optimum performance of the method are derived. The method has been implemented in a multiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometer and mass separation powers (FWHM) in excess of 70,000, and re-trapping efficiencies of up to 35% have been obtained for the protonated molecular ion of caffeine. The isobars glutamine and lysine (relative mass difference of 1/4000) have been separated after a flight time of 0.2 ms only. Higher mass separation powers can be achieved using longer flight times. The method will have important applications, including isobar separation in nuclear physics and (ultra-)high-resolution precursor ion selection in multiple-stage tandem mass spectrometry.



Zitierstile

Harvard-ZitierstilDickel, T., Plass, W., Lippert, W., Lang, J., Yavor, M., Geissel, H., et al. (2017) Isobar Separation in a Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer by Mass-Selective Re-Trapping, Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 28(6), pp. 1079-1090. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-017-1617-z

APA-ZitierstilDickel, T., Plass, W., Lippert, W., Lang, J., Yavor, M., Geissel, H., & Scheidenberger, C. (2017). Isobar Separation in a Multiple-Reflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer by Mass-Selective Re-Trapping. Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 28(6), 1079-1090. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-017-1617-z



Schlagwörter


High-resolution precursor ion selectionIsobar separatorMIRRORMultiple-reflection time-of-flight mass spectrometerPENNING-TRAPQUADRUPOLE ION-TRAPTandem-in-time

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