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Reactions of poly(ethylene glycol) cations with iodide and perfluorocarbon anions

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Multiply charged poly(ethylene glycol) ions of the form (M+nNa)n+ derived from electrospray ionization have been subjected to reactions with negative ions in the quadrupole ion trap. Mixtures of multiply charged positive ions ranging in average mass from about 2000 to about 14,000 Da were observed to react with perfluorocarbon anions by either proton transfer or fluoride transfer. Iodide anions reacted with the same positive ions by attachment. In no case was fragmentation of the polymer ion observed. In all cases, the multiply charged positive ion charge states could be readily reduced to +1, thereby eliminating the charge state overlap observed in the normal electrospray mass spectrum. With all three reaction mechanisms, however, the +1 product ions were comprised of mixtures of products with varying numbers of sodium ions, and in the case of iodide attachment and fluoride transfer, varying numbers of halogen anions. These reactions shift the mass distributions to higher masses and broaden the distributions. The extents to which these effects occur are functions of the magnitudes of the initial charges and the width of the initial charge state distributions. Care must be taken in deriving information about the polymer molecular weight distribution from the singly charged product ions arising from these ion/ion reactions. The cluster ions containing iodide were shown to be intermediates in sodium ion transfer. Dissociation of the adduct ions can therefore lead to a +1 product ion population that is comprised predominantly of M+Na+ ions. However, a strategy based on the dissociation of the iodide cluster ions is limited by difficulties in dissociating high mass-to-charge ions in the quadrupole ion trap.

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Stephenson, J.L., McLuckey, S.A. Reactions of poly(ethylene glycol) cations with iodide and perfluorocarbon anions. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 9, 957–965 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1044-0305(98)00066-X

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