How to Compute Electron Ionization Mass Spectra from First Principles

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• 作者：Christoph Alexander Bauer ; Stefan Grimme
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：120
• 期：21
• 页码：3755-3766
• 全文大小：697K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5215

文摘

The prediction of electron ionization (EI) mass spectra (MS) from first principles has been a major challenge for quantum chemistry (QC). The unimolecular reaction space grows rapidly with increasing molecular size. On the one hand, statistical models like Eyring’s quasi-equilibrium theory and Rice–Ramsperger–Kassel–Marcus theory have provided valuable insight, and some predictions and quantitative results can be obtained from such calculations. On the other hand, molecular dynamics-based methods are able to explore automatically the energetically available regions of phase space and thus yield reaction paths in an unbiased way. We describe in this feature article the status of both methodologies in relation to mass spectrometry for small to medium sized molecules. We further present results obtained with the QCEIMS program developed in our laboratory. Our method, which incorporates stochastic and dynamic elements, has been a significant step toward the reliable routine calculation of EI mass spectra.