Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04426 |
| Document | author version |
| Title (Primary) | Online counter gradient LC-FT-ICR-MS enables detection of highly polar natural organic matter fractions |
| Author | Han, L.; Kaesler, J.; Peng, C.; Reemtsma, T.; Lechtenfeld, O.J.
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| Source Titel | Analytical Chemistry |
| Year | 2021 |
| Department | ANA |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Page From | 1740 |
| Page To | 1748 |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T9 Healthy Planet |
| Supplements | Supplement 1 |
| UFZ wide themes | ProVIS |
| Abstract | Natural organic matter (NOM) is a highly complex mixture of natural organic molecules. The recent developments in NOM molecular characterization methods have shown that ESI-FT-ICR hyphenated with liquid chromatography (LC) is a promising approach to also obtain chemical information (such as polarity and molecular size) about NOM molecules. However, due to changing solvent composition during gradient elution in LC-FT-ICR-MS, ionization conditions also change throughout the chromatographic separation process. In this study, we applied a post-LC column counter gradient (CG) to ensure stable solvent conditions for transient ESI-MS signals. Suwanee River Fulvic Acid (SRFA) standard and a peat pore water were used as representative dissolved NOM samples for method development and validation. Our results show that in polar NOM fractions (which elute with <50% methanol) the TIC intensity and number of assigned molecular formulas were increased by 48% and 20%, as compared to the standard gradient (SG) method. Further application of a Q-isolation and selective ion accumulation for low abundance fractions revealed over 3 times more molecular formulas (especially for CHNO, CHOS, CHNOS formula classes) than in full scan mode. The number of detected highly polar NOM compounds (with elemental ratios H/C < 1, O/C > 0.6) were more than 20 times larger for CG-LC mode as compared to direct infusion (DI) (5715 vs 266 MF). We conclude that the application of a postcolumn counter gradient in LC-FT-ICR-MS analyses of NOM offers novel insight into the most polar fractions of NOM which are inaccessible in conventional DI measurements. |
| Han, L., Kaesler, J., Peng, C., Reemtsma, T., Lechtenfeld, O.J. (2021): Online counter gradient LC-FT-ICR-MS enables detection of highly polar natural organic matter fractions Anal. Chem. 93 (3), 1740 - 1748 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04426 |
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