TY - JOUR A1 - Michalik-Onichimowska, Aleksandra A1 - Kern, Simon A1 - Riedel, Jens A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - King, R. A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - ‘‘Click” analytics for ‘‘click” chemistry – A simple method for calibration–free evaluation of online NMR spectra N2 - Driven mostly by the search for chemical syntheses under biocompatible conditions, so called "click" chemistry rapidly became a growing field of research. The resulting simple one-pot reactions are so far only scarcely accompanied by an adequate optimization via comparably straightforward and robust analysis techniques possessing short set-up times. Here, we report on a fast and reliable calibration-free online NMR monitoring approach for technical mixtures. It combines a versatile fluidic system, continuous-flow measurement of 1H spectra with a time interval of 20 s per spectrum, and a robust, fully automated algorithm to interpret the obtained data. As a proof-of-concept, the thiol-ene coupling between N-boc cysteine methyl ester and allyl alcohol was conducted in a variety of non-deuterated solvents while its time-resolved behaviour was characterized with step tracer experiments. Overlapping signals in online spectra during thiol-ene coupling could be deconvoluted with a spectral model using indirect hard modeling and were subsequently converted to either molar ratios (using a calibrationfree approach) or absolute concentrations (using 1-point calibration). For various solvents the kinetic constant k for pseudo-first order reaction was estimated to be 3.9 h-1 at 25 °C. The obtained results were compared with direct integration of non-overlapping signals and showed good agreement with the implemented mass balance. KW - Online NMR Spectroscopy KW - Reaction Monitoring KW - Automated Data Evaluation KW - Thiol-ene click chemistry KW - Click Chemistry KW - Process Analytical Technology PY - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-393232 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090780717300575 VL - 277 SP - 154 EP - 161 PB - Elsevier Inc. CY - Oxford AN - OPUS4-39323 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bierstedt, Andreas A1 - Kersten, H. A1 - Glaus, Reto A1 - Gornushkin, Igor B. A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - Riedel, Jens T1 - Characterization of an airborne laser-spark ion source for ambient mass spectrometry N2 - An airborne laser plasma is suggested as an ambient ion source for mass spectrometry. Its fundamental physical properties, such as an excellent spatial and temporal definition, high electron and ion densities and a high effective cross section in maintaining the plasma, make it a promising candidate for future applications. For deeper insights into the plasma properties, the optical plasma emission is examined and compared to mass spectra. The results show a seemingly contradictory behavior, since the emitted light reports the plasma to almost entirely consist of hot elemental ions, while the corresponding mass spectra exhibit the formation of intact molecular species. Further experiments, including time- resolved shadowgraphy, spatially resolved mass spectrometry, as well as flow-dependent emission spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, suggest the analyte molecules to be formed in the cold plasma vicinity upon interaction with reactive species formed inside the hot plasma center. Spatial separation is maintained by concentrically expanding pressure waves, inducing a strong unidirectional diffusion. The accompanying rarefaction inside the plasma center can be compensated by a gas stream application. This replenishing results in a strong increase in emission brightness, in local reactive species concentration, and eventually in direct mass spectrometric sensitivity. To determine the analytical performance of the new technique, a comparison with an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source was conducted. Two kitchen herbs, namely, spearmint and basil, were analyzed without any sample pretreatment. The presented results demonstrate a considerably higher sensitivity of the presented laser-spark ionization technique. KW - Laser-spark KW - Laser induced plasma KW - Ambient mass spectrometry KW - Optical emission spectroscopy KW - Ionization PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04178 SN - 0003-2700 SN - 1520-6882 VL - 89 IS - 6 SP - 3437 EP - 3444 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington, DC, USA AN - OPUS4-39474 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Michalik-Onichimowska, Aleksandra A1 - Beitz, T. A1 - Panne, Ulrich A1 - Löhmannsröben, H.-G. A1 - Riedel, Jens T1 - Microsecond mid-infrared laser pulses for atmospheric pressure laser ablation/ionization of liquid samples N2 - In many laser based ionization techniques with a subsequent drift time separation, the laser pulse generating the ions is considered as the start time t0. Therefore, an accurate temporal definition of this event is crucial for the resolution of the experiments. In this contribution, the laser induced plume dynamics of liquids evaporating into atmospheric pressure are visualized for two distinctively different laser pulse widths, Δt = 6 nanoseconds and Δτ = 280 microseconds. For ns-pulses the expansion of the generated vapour against atmospheric pressure is found to lead to turbulences inside the gas phase. This results in spatial and temporal broadening of the nascent clouds. A more equilibrated expansion, without artificial smearing of the temporal resolution can, in contrast, be observed to follow μs-pulse excitation. This leads to the counterintuitive finding that longer laser pulses results in an increased temporal vapour formation definition. To examine if this fume expansion also eventually results in a better definition of ion formation, the nascent vapour plumes were expanded into a linear drift tube ion mobility spectrometer (IMS). This time resolved detection of ion formation corroborates the temporal broadening caused by collisional impeding of the supersonic expansion at atmospheric pressure and the overall better defined ion formation by evaporation with long laser pulses. A direct comparison of the observed results strongly suggests the coexistence of two individual ion formation mechanisms that can be specifically addressed by the use of appropriate laser sources. KW - Plume KW - Laser ablation KW - Ion mobility spectrometry KW - Pulse duration KW - Ionization PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2016.06.155 VL - 238 SP - 298 EP - 305 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam, NL AN - OPUS4-37158 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -