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- Title
Automatic Assignment of Molecular Ion Species to Elemental Formulas in Gas Chromatography/Methane Chemical Ionization Accurate Mass Spectrometry.
- Authors
Wang, Shunyang; Valdiviez, Luis; Ye, Honglian; Fiehn, Oliver
- Abstract
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) usually employs hard electron ionization, leading to extensive fragmentations that are suitable to identify compounds based on library matches. However, such spectra are less useful to structurally characterize unknown compounds that are absent from libraries, due to the lack of readily recognizable molecular ion species. We tested methane chemical ionization on 369 trimethylsilylated (TMS) derivatized metabolites using a quadrupole time-of-flight detector (QTOF). We developed an algorithm to automatically detect molecular ion species and tested SIRIUS software on how accurate the determination of molecular formulas was. The automatic workflow correctly recognized 289 (84%) of all 345 detected derivatized standards. Specifically, strong [M − CH3]+ fragments were observed in 290 of 345 derivatized chemicals, which enabled the automatic recognition of molecular adduct patterns. Using Sirius software, correct elemental formulas were retrieved in 87% of cases within the top three hits. When investigating the cases for which the automatic pattern analysis failed, we found that several metabolites showed a previously unknown [M + TMS]+ adduct formed by rearrangement. Methane chemical ionization with GC-QTOF mass spectrometry is a suitable avenue to identify molecular formulas for abundant unknown peaks.
- Subjects
GAS chromatography/Mass spectrometry (GC-MS); CHEMICAL ionization mass spectrometry; IONS; GAS chromatography; CHEMICAL formulas; MOLECULAR recognition; CHEMICAL testing
- Publication
Metabolites (2218-1989), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 8, p962
- ISSN
2218-1989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/metabo13080962