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X-ray induced fragmentation of size-selected salt cluster-ions stored in an ion trap
- Source :
- RSC Advances 88 (4), 47743-47751. (2014), RSC Advances, RSC Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014, 4 (88), pp.47743-47751. ⟨10.1039/c4ra09787d⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2014.
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Abstract
- International audience; A method for spectroscopic characterization of free ionic clusters and nanoparticles utilizing X-ray synchrotron radiation is presented. We demonstrate that size-selected ammonium bisulphate cluster ions, NH4+(NH4HSO4)(n), captured in a linear ion trap, exhibit well-defined core-level absorption edges in the reconstructed fragment-ion abundance spectra. In addition to the specific photo-fragmentation pathways observed at the N1s-, O1s- and S2p-edges, dissociation also occurs as a consequence of clusters colliding with helium present as buffer gas in the ion trap. Separate off-beam experiments were conducted to establish the activation kinetics of these collision induced dissociation processes. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the electrons released upon photoionization of background helium are too few in number to produce multiply charged cluster ions, and thereby induce fragmentation of the salt clusters, to any significant degree. The mechanisms for photon absorption and subsequent cluster fragmentation are analysed and discussed. In addition to its inherent element specificity, the method holds promise for cluster structure elucidation resulting from the sensitivity of the near edge absorption structure to the local chemical environment of the excited atom.
- Subjects :
- ELECTROSPRAY-IONIZATION
Ionic clusters
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Chemical Engineering
education
116 Chemical sciences
Analytical chemistry
Nanoparticle
Synchrotron radiation
TRANSITION-METAL CLUSTERS
SODIUM CLUSTERS
GAS-PHASE
HYDRATED PROTONS
114 Physical sciences
WATER CLUSTERS
Ion
chemistry.chemical_compound
Fragmentation (mass spectrometry)
HYDROGEN-BOND
Physics::Plasma Physics
FREE JET EXPANSION
[SDV.IDA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Food engineering
[SPI.GPROC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Chemical and Process Engineering
Ammonium
SPECTROSCOPY
Chemistry
X-ray
MASS-SPECTROMETRY
General Chemistry
Ion trap
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20462069
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- RSC Adv.
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....46e00246465308113ff2636c1da25978