TANDEM MASS-SPECTROMETRY OF POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) LITHIUM-ATTACHMENT IONS

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LATTIMER, RP
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[1] Research and Development Center, The BFGoodrich Company, Brecksville, 44141, Ohio
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10.1016/1044-0305(94)85068-2
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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study of the fast-atom bombardment tandem mass spectrometry behavior of a number of ethylene glycol polymers (PEGs) has been carried out. Both linear (hydroxyl, amino, and/or alkyl end groups) and cyclic (crown ether) polymers were studied. One of the materials is a block copolymer of ethylene and propylene oxides. Collisional activation was carried out in the collision octapole of a BEoQ hybrid mass spectrometer at a translational energy of 50 eV, with collision gas air. For the linear polymers, the most intense product ions are lithiated, linear polyglycol oligomers. These ions are formed via internal hydrogen transfer reactions that are facilitated (charge-induced) by lithium. This series of product ions allows for the observation of consecutive losses of monomer units from the chain end; this is useful to determine the sequence of monomers in a copolymer. The most abundant product ions from cyclic PEGs are lithiated radical cations. An especially interesting finding in this work is the preferential loss of two internal ethylene oxide (EO) units (dioxane, 88 u) from some [M + Li](+) precursors. Factors that influence this loss include (a) the sequence length of EO repeat units in the oligomer and (b) the identity of the end group(s) on the oligomer. It is proposed that this elimination of dioxane involves a six-membered ring intermediate; this decomposition reaction is believed to be a lithium-mediated (charge-induced) rearrangement.
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