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PTR-MS studies of the reactions of H3O+ with a number of deuterated volatile organic compounds and the subsequent sequential reactions of the primary product ions with water under normal and humid drift tube conditions: Implications for use of deuterated compounds for breath analysis

  • Product ion distributions resulting from the primary reactions of H3O+ with nine D-labeled volatile organic compounds and the subsequent sequential reactions with H2O have been determined using a Proton Transfer Reaction Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-TOF 8000 (IONICON Analytik GmbH)) at various reduced electric field (E/N) values ranging from 80 up to 150 Td and for two different absolute humidity levels of air sample < 0.1% and 5%. The specific D-labeled compounds used in this study are acetone-d6, toluene-d8, benzene-d6, ethanol-d (C2H5OD), ethanol-d2 (CH3CD2OH), ethanol-d6, 2-propanol-d8, 2-propanol-d3 (CD3CH(OH)CH3), and isoprene-d5 (CH2CHC(CD2)CD3). With the exception of the two 2-propanol compounds, non-dissociative proton transfer is the dominant primary reaction pathway. For 2-propanol-d8 and 2-propanol-d3 the major primary reaction channel involved is dissociative proton transfer. However, unlike their undeuterated counterparts, the primary product ions undergo subsequent deuterium/hydrogen isotope exchange reactions with the ever present water in the drift tube, the extent of which of course depends on the humidity within that tube. This exchange leads to the generation of various isotopologue product ions, the product ion branching percentages of which are also dependent on the humidity in the drift tube. This results in complex mass spectra and the distribution of product ions leads to issues of reduced sensitivity and accuracy. However, the effect of D/H exchange considerably varies between the compounds under study. In the case of acetone-d6 it is very weak (<1%), because the exchange process is not facile when the deuterium is in the methyl functional group. In comparison, the H3O+/ benzene-d6 (C6D6) reaction and sequential reactions with water result in the production of the isotopologue ions C6Dn(H7-n)+ (where n = 0–6). Changing the value of E/N and/or the humidity in the drift tube considerably affects the amount of the isotope exchange reactions and hence the resulting sequential product ion distributions. An important conclusion of the findings from this work is that care must be taken in the choice of an exogenous deuterated compound for use in breath pharmacokinetic studies using proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry; otherwise the resulting D/H exchange processes impose interpretative problems. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Author:Pawel Mochalski, Sofia Mirmigkou, Karl Unterkofler, Philipp Sulzer, Christopher A. Mayhew, Tilmann D. Märk
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijms.2018.11.007
ISSN:1387-3806
Parent Title (English):International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of publication:2018
Release Date:2019/08/01
Tag:D/H isotopic exchange; Deuterated volatile organic compounds; Fragmentation patterns; HOreactions; PTR-TOF-MS
Volume:o.Jg
Issue:Bd. 436
First Page:65
Last Page:70
Organisationseinheit:Technik / Department of Computer Science (Ende 2021 aufgelöst; Integration in die übergeordnete OE Technik)
Forschung / Forschungszentrum Business Informatics
Technik / Technik | Engineering & Technology
Open Access?:ja
Peer review:wiss. Beitrag, peer-reviewed
Publicationlist:Unterkofler, Karl
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - International - Attribution- Namensnennung 4.0