Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 25, Issue 8, Pages 1384-1393Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-0909-9
Keywords
Ion mobility; Heating; Isomerization; Collision cross section
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- FRS-FNRS
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During their travel inside a traveling wave ion mobility cell (TW IMS), ions are susceptible to heating because of the presence of high intensity electric fields. Here, we report effective temperatures T (eff,vib) obtained at the injection and inside the mobility cell of a SYNAPT G2 HDMS spectrometer for different probe ions: benzylpyridinium ions and leucine enkephalin. Using standard parameter sets, we obtained a temperature of similar to 800 K at injection and 728 +/- 2 K into the IMS cell for p-methoxybenzylpyridinium. We found that T (eff,vib) inside the cell was dependent on the separation parameters and on the nature of the analyte. While the mean energy of the Boltzmann distributions increases with ion size, the corresponding temperature decreases because of increasing numbers of vibrational normal modes. We also investigated conformational rearrangements of 7+ ions of cytochrome c and reveal isomerization of the most compact structure, therefore highlighting the effects of weak heating on the gas-phase structure of biologically relevant ions.
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