Organic reactions in microdroplets: reaction acceleration revealed by mass spectrometry

X Yan, RM Bain, RG Cooks - … Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The striking finding that reaction acceleration occurs in confined‐volume solutions sets up
an apparent conundrum: Microdroplets formed by spray ionization can be used to monitor …

Ambient ionization mass spectrometry for point-of-care diagnostics and other clinical measurements

CR Ferreira, KE Yannell, AK Jarmusch, V Pirro… - Clinical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND One driving motivation in the development of point-of-care (POC)
diagnostics is to conveniently and immediately provide information upon which healthcare …

Accelerated reactions of amines with carbon dioxide driven by superacid at the microdroplet interface

KH Huang, Z Wei, RG Cooks - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microdroplets display distinctive interfacial chemistry, manifested as accelerated reactions
relative to those observed for the same reagents in bulk. Carbon dioxide undergoes C–N …

A critical analysis of electrospray techniques for the determination of accelerated rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions in droplets

G Rovelli, MI Jacobs, MD Willis, RJ Rapf… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrospray and Electrosonic Spray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS and ESSI-MS)
have been widely used to report evidence that many chemical reactions in micro-and nano …

Accelerated microdroplet synthesis of benzimidazoles by nucleophilic addition to protonated carboxylic acids

P Basuri, LE Gonzalez, NM Morato, T Pradeep… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report a metal-free novel route for the accelerated synthesis of benzimidazole and its
derivatives in the ambient atmosphere. The synthetic procedure involves 1, 2-aromatic …

High throughput reaction screening using desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

M Wleklinski, BP Loren, CR Ferreira, Z Jaman… - Chemical …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the high throughput analysis of reaction mixture arrays using methods and data
handling routines that were originally developed for biological tissue imaging. Desorption …

Accelerated Hantzsch electrospray synthesis with temporal control of reaction intermediates

RM Bain, CJ Pulliam, RG Cooks - Chemical Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex chemical reactions can occur in electrosprayed droplets on the millisecond time
scale. The Hantzsch synthesis of 1, 4-dihydropyridines was studied in this way using on-line …

Ambient mass spectrometry imaging using direct liquid extraction techniques

J Laskin, I Lanekoff - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a powerful analytical technique that enables label-free
spatial localization and identification of molecules in complex samples. 1− 4 MSI …

Reaction acceleration in electrospray droplets: size, distance, and surfactant effects

BM Marsh, K Iyer, RG Cooks - Journal of The American Society for …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Phenylhydrazone formation from isatin is used to examine the effects on the reaction rate of
(i) electrospray emitter distance from the mass spectrometer (MS) inlet,(ii) emitter tip …

Going beyond electrospray: mass spectrometric studies of chemical reactions in and on liquids

AJ Ingram, CL Boeser, RN Zare - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been a burst in the number and variety of available ionization techniques to use
mass spectrometry to monitor chemical reactions in and on liquids. Chemists have gained …