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Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry

Volume 8, 2015

A Thermal Mechanism of Ion Formation in MALDI

Abstract

An important recent discovery concerning the fundamentals of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) is that the abundance of each ion appearing in a spectrum is fixed, regardless of the experimental condition, when an effective temperature associated with the spectrum is fixed. We describe this phenomenon and the thermal picture for the ion formation in MALDI derived from it. Accepting that matrix-to-analyte proton transfer is in quasi-equilibrium as supported by experimental data, the above thermal determination occurs because the primary (matrix) ion formation processes are thermally governed. We propose that the abundances of the primary ions are limited by the autoprotolysis-recombination process regardless of how they are initially produced. Finally, we note that primary ion formation, secondary (analyte) ion formation, and their dissociations occur sequentially while the effective temperature of the matrix plume falls steadily due to cooling associated with expansion.

Keyword(s): adiabatic cooling, autoprotolysis, MALDI mechanism, quantitative reproducibility, recombination, thermal model
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A Thermal Mechanism of Ion Formation in MALDI
Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry 8, 41 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anchem-081413-024102
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