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A simple collision model for multiple collisions occurring in quadrupole type mass spectrometers was derived and tested with leucine enkaphalin a common mass spectrometric standard with well-characterized properties. Implementation of the collision model and Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM) algorithm into a spreadsheet software allowed a good fitting of the calculated data to the experimental survival yield (SY) versus collision energy curve. In addition, fitting also ensured to estimate the efficiencies of the kinetic to internal energy conversion for Leucine enkephalin in quadrupole-time-of-flight and triple quadrupole instruments. It was observed that the experimental SY versus collision energy curves for the leucine enkephalin can be described by the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel (RRK) formalism by reducing the total degrees of freedom (DOF) to about one-fifth. Furthermore, this collision model with the RRK formalism was used to estimate the critical energy (E o ) of lithiated polyethers, including polyethylene glycol (PEG), polypropylene glycol (PPG), and polytetrahydrofurane (PTHF) with degrees of freedom similar to that of leucine enkephalin. Applying polyethers with similar DOF provided the elimination of the effect of DOF on the unimolecular reaction rate constant. The estimated value of E o for PEG showed a relatively good agreement with the value calculated by high-level quantum chemical calculations reported in the literature. Interestingly, it was also found that the E o values for the studied polyethers were similar.
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The authors acknowledge financial support for this work by the grants K-101850 given by OTKA (National Fund for Scientific Research Development, Hungary), and the grants TAMOP 4.2.1./B-09/1/KONV-2010-0007, TAMOP-4.2.2./B-10/1-2010-0024, and TÁMOP-4.2.2.A-11/1/KONV-2012-0036 by the European Union.
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Kuki, Á., Shemirani, G., Nagy, L. et al. Estimation of Activation Energy from the Survival Yields: Fragmentation Study of Leucine Enkephalin and Polyethers by Tandem Mass Spectrometry. J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 24, 1064–1071 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13361-013-0635-8
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