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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2436-2450 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Early online date | 3 Aug 2021 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2021 |
Abstract
Ions are separated in ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) by their characteristic motion through a gas-filled drift tube with a static electric field present. Chemical dynamics, such as clustering and declustering of chemically reactive systems, and physical parameters, as, for example, the electric field strength or background gas temperature, impact on the observed ion mobility. In high kinetic energy IMS (HiKE-IMS), the reduced electric field strength is up to 120 Td in both the reaction region and drift region of the instrument. The ion generation in a corona discharge driven chemical ionization source leads generally to formation of proton-bound water clusters. However, the reduced electric field strength and therefore the effective ion temperature has a significant influence on the chemical equilibria of this reaction system. In order to characterize the effects occurring in IMS systems in general, numerical simulations can support and potentially explain experimental observations. The comparison of the simulation of a well characterized chemical reaction system (i.e., the proton-bound water cluster system) with experimental results allows us to validate the numerical model applied in this work. Numerical simulations of the proton-bound water cluster system were performed with the custom particle-based ion dynamics simulation framework (IDSimF). The ion-transport calculation in the model is based on a Verlet integration of the equations of motion and uses a customized Barnes-Hut method to calculate space charge interactions. The chemical kinetics is modeled stochastically with a Monte Carlo method. The experimental and simulated drift spectra are in good qualitative and quantitative agreement, and experimentally observed individual transitions of cluster ions are clearly reproduced and identified by the numerical model.
Keywords
- cluster dissociation, cluster formation, corona discharge ionization, HiKE-IMS, hydrated hydronium ions, Monte Carlo, proton-bound water cluster, secondary electrospray ionization, selected ion flow tube, simulation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Structural Biology
- Chemistry(all)
- Spectroscopy
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In: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 32, No. 9, 01.09.2021, p. 2436-2450.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Simulation of Cluster Dynamics of Proton-Bound Water Clusters in a High Kinetic Energy Ion-Mobility Spectrometer
AU - Erdogdu, Duygu
AU - Wißdorf, Walter
AU - Allers, Maria
AU - Kirk, Ansgar T.
AU - Kersten, Hendrik
AU - Zimmermann, Stefan
AU - Benter, Thorsten
N1 - Funding Information: This work is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), joint project BE 2124/8-1-ZI 1288/8-1.
PY - 2021/9/1
Y1 - 2021/9/1
N2 - Ions are separated in ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) by their characteristic motion through a gas-filled drift tube with a static electric field present. Chemical dynamics, such as clustering and declustering of chemically reactive systems, and physical parameters, as, for example, the electric field strength or background gas temperature, impact on the observed ion mobility. In high kinetic energy IMS (HiKE-IMS), the reduced electric field strength is up to 120 Td in both the reaction region and drift region of the instrument. The ion generation in a corona discharge driven chemical ionization source leads generally to formation of proton-bound water clusters. However, the reduced electric field strength and therefore the effective ion temperature has a significant influence on the chemical equilibria of this reaction system. In order to characterize the effects occurring in IMS systems in general, numerical simulations can support and potentially explain experimental observations. The comparison of the simulation of a well characterized chemical reaction system (i.e., the proton-bound water cluster system) with experimental results allows us to validate the numerical model applied in this work. Numerical simulations of the proton-bound water cluster system were performed with the custom particle-based ion dynamics simulation framework (IDSimF). The ion-transport calculation in the model is based on a Verlet integration of the equations of motion and uses a customized Barnes-Hut method to calculate space charge interactions. The chemical kinetics is modeled stochastically with a Monte Carlo method. The experimental and simulated drift spectra are in good qualitative and quantitative agreement, and experimentally observed individual transitions of cluster ions are clearly reproduced and identified by the numerical model.
AB - Ions are separated in ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) by their characteristic motion through a gas-filled drift tube with a static electric field present. Chemical dynamics, such as clustering and declustering of chemically reactive systems, and physical parameters, as, for example, the electric field strength or background gas temperature, impact on the observed ion mobility. In high kinetic energy IMS (HiKE-IMS), the reduced electric field strength is up to 120 Td in both the reaction region and drift region of the instrument. The ion generation in a corona discharge driven chemical ionization source leads generally to formation of proton-bound water clusters. However, the reduced electric field strength and therefore the effective ion temperature has a significant influence on the chemical equilibria of this reaction system. In order to characterize the effects occurring in IMS systems in general, numerical simulations can support and potentially explain experimental observations. The comparison of the simulation of a well characterized chemical reaction system (i.e., the proton-bound water cluster system) with experimental results allows us to validate the numerical model applied in this work. Numerical simulations of the proton-bound water cluster system were performed with the custom particle-based ion dynamics simulation framework (IDSimF). The ion-transport calculation in the model is based on a Verlet integration of the equations of motion and uses a customized Barnes-Hut method to calculate space charge interactions. The chemical kinetics is modeled stochastically with a Monte Carlo method. The experimental and simulated drift spectra are in good qualitative and quantitative agreement, and experimentally observed individual transitions of cluster ions are clearly reproduced and identified by the numerical model.
KW - cluster dissociation
KW - cluster formation
KW - corona discharge ionization
KW - HiKE-IMS
KW - hydrated hydronium ions
KW - Monte Carlo
KW - proton-bound water cluster
KW - secondary electrospray ionization
KW - selected ion flow tube
KW - simulation
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U2 - 10.1021/jasms.1c00140
DO - 10.1021/jasms.1c00140
M3 - Article
C2 - 34342982
AN - SCOPUS:85113697885
VL - 32
SP - 2436
EP - 2450
JO - Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
JF - Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
SN - 1044-0305
IS - 9
ER -