Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 278, Issue 2-3, Pages 158-165Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2008.04.009
Keywords
Desorption; DESI; LDI; Organophosphate
Funding
- JHU/APL internal research and development
- JHU/APL postdoctoral fellowship
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Two desorption ionization mass spectrometry (MS) techniques - ultraviolet laser desorption/ionization (LDI) and desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) - have been used to detect and identify low-volatility organophosphates when deposited on Surfaces or loaded into the pore volume of porous inorganic or polymeric organic powders. The insecticides malathion and dicrotophos were chosen for this study as simulants of low vapor pressure chemical warfare agents which are inherently difficult to detect directly by traditional methods. Both liquid and powdered forms of either insecticide were readily detected by LDI or DESI MS. LDI MS was performed on a miniaturized home-built time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer and a commercial TOF/TOF instrument. For DESI MS, a home-built ion source was interfaced to a commercial quadrupole ion trap. In LDI, intact molecular ion signatures Could be acquired by using an appropriate cationizing agent and powder additive in positive ion mode. Tandem MS was used to confirm the identity of each analyte based on the observed characteristic fragmentation pattern. In DESI, less than 100 pg of the liquid insecticides spotted on clean surfaces were detected, while detection limits for the powder-loaded preparations were lower than 1 mu g. The effects of sample surface, salt additives, nanoparticle admixtures, and analyte Solubility on the LDI and DESI MS sensitivity have been investigated as well. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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