Amorphous Conjugated Polymers as Efficient Dual-Mode MALDI Matrices for Low-Molecular-Weight Analytes
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Abstract
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI MS) usually employs highly crystalline small-molecule matrices, and the analyte is interpreted as being co-crystallized with the matrix. We recently showed that semi-crystalline polymers are efficient matrices for the detection of low-molecular-weight compounds (LMWCs) in MALDI MS and MALDI MS Imaging, and are dual-mode, i. e., enabling both positive and negative modes. The matrix performances of two fluorene/napthalene diimide co-polymers P(TNDIT-Fl(C4C2)) and P(TNDIT-Fl(C10C8)) were investigated and compared. Both are fully amorphous according to XRD measurements, show high relative absorption values at the wavelength of common MALDI lasers (lambda(Nd:YAG)=355 nm: C4C2=73 %; C10C8=67 %), and are solution processable. As matrices, they are dual-mode, and enable the detection of LMWCs while being mostly MALDI-silent. Compared with semicrystalline polymer matrices, the amorphous matrices give similar or better signal intensities, thus indicating that analyte inclusion takes place in the amorphous part of the polymer matrix.
Details
| Original language | German |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1338-1345 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | ChemPlusChem |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Early online date | Jul 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| PubMed | 31944045 |
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| Scopus | 85068898715 |
| ORCID | /0000-0002-4531-691X/work/148608088 |
Keywords
Keywords
- MALDI mass spectrometry, Amorphous morphology, Conjugated polymers, Low-molecular-weight analytes, Matrices