在无放射性辉光放电离子源内,采用不同试剂气体进行放电,为质子转移反应质谱(PTR-MS)新增了强度在105 cps量级的3种反应离子NH4+,NO+和O2+,纯度大于95%;测试了这3种反应离子的离子-分子反应特征.采用H3O+,NH4+,NO+和O2+等4种反应离子对同分异构体丙醛/丙酮进行检测发现,H3O+和NH 4+均不能区分的丙醛/丙酮可采用NO+或O 2+进行区分.结果表明,增加反应离子不仅使PTR-MS的可检测有机物范围不再局限于质子亲和势(PA)大于H2O的有机物,还提高了PTR-MS区分同分异构体的能力.
Clean sources of reagent ions H3O+,NH+4,NO+ and O+2 were obtained in conventional proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry(PTR-MS) without any radioactive substance and any mass pre-selection.The intensity of these reagents is at 105cps.Three kinds of new reagents,NH+4,NO+ and O+2 tested with some volatile organic compounds(VOCs) show different ionization characters.The isomers propanal and acetone were detected with reagent ions H3O+,NH+4,NO+ and O+2.The results show that NO+ and O+2 can discriminate propanal from acetone.New multi-reagent ions PTR-MS can detect more compounds,whose proton affinities(PA) are not always higher than that of H2O(691.0 kJ/mol).And it is shown to be a more versatile technique than conventional PTR-MS with the potential for analysis of isocompounds.