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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 131, Issue 44, Pages 16266-16271Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja906976w
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- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Department of Energy
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0950320] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Electrospray ionization triple-quadrupole mass spectrometry of ca. 1.6 nm diameter thiolate-protected gold nanoparticles has been achieved at higher resolution than in previous reports. The results reveal the presence of nanoparticles with formulas Au144L60 and Au146L59, present in the sample as a mixture. The improved resolution is based on lowering m/z by exchanging multiple [-SC11H22N(CH2CH3)(3)(+)] ligands into the original [-S(CH2)(5)CH3] ligand shell. The nanoparticles are thus intrinsically cationized and appear as a series of 10+ to 15+ mass spectral peaks. The assigned state of charge was confirmed by a collision-induced dissociation measurement.
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