Aggregation of a Crown Ether Decorated Zinc鈥揚hthalocyanine by Collision-Induced Desolvation of Electrospray Droplets

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• 作者：Ina D. Kellner ; Uwe Hahn ; Maximilian D眉rr ; Tom谩s Torres ; Ivana Ivanovi膰-Burmazovi膰 ; Thomas Drewello
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 19, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：119
• 期：46
• 页码：11454-11460
• 全文大小：396K
• ISSN：1520-5215

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The aggregation of phthalocyanines is well-known in solution but has never before been studied in the gas phase. We investigated the tetra-[18]crown-6 ether functionalized zinc鈥損hthalocyanine (ZnPcTetCr, M) with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in the absence of coordinating metal cations. Apart from the molecular ion M^{+鈥?/sup>, singly and multiply charged aggregates M_nz(+鈥? were observed, bound together by electrostatic interactions, without alkali metal cations inside the crown ethers. Collision-induced dissociation (CID) experiments indicate that these clusters consist of stacked neutral M and radical cations M+鈥?/sup>. After the oxidation of individual molecules at the electrospray needle, the aggregation occurs during desolvation of the charged droplets created in the source. Complete evaporation of the solvent and detection of the aggregates was found to require an additional acceleration of the droplets in the transfer region of the instrument, the resulting collisions with neutral gas assisting the desolvation process.}