The influence of mineralogy on recovering organic acids from Mars analogue materials using the 鈥渙ne-pot鈥?derivatization experiment on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite

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• 作者：F. Stalport^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^{fabien.stalport@lisa.u-pec.fr} ; D.P. Glavin^c ; J.L. Eigenbrode^c ; D. Bish^d ; D. Blake^e ; P. Coll^a ; ^b ; C. Szopa^f ; ^g ; ^h ; ⁱ ; ^j ; A. Buch^k ; A. McAdam^c ; J.P. Dworkin^c ; P.R. Mahaffy^c
• 关键词：Mars ; SAM ; MSL ; Derivatization ; Organic matter
• 刊名：Planetary and Space Science
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：60_00320633
• 类别：ph
• 出版时间：July, 2012
• 卷：67
• 期：1
• 页码：1-13
• 文件大小：971 K

摘要

The search for complex organic molecules on Mars, including important biomolecules such as amino acids and carboxylic acids, will require a chemical extraction and a derivatization step to transform these organic compounds into species that are sufficiently volatile to be detected by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS). We have developed a 鈥渙ne-pot鈥?extraction and chemical derivatization protocol using N-methyl-N-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl) trifluoroacetamide (MTBSTFA) and dimethylformamide (DMF) for the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment instrument suite on NASA's the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. The temperature and duration of the derivatization reaction, pre-concentration of chemical derivatives, and gas chromatographic separation parameters have been optimized under SAM instrument design constraints. MTBSTFA/DMF extraction and derivatization at 300 掳C for several minutes of a variety of terrestrial Mars analog materials facilitated the detection of amino acids and carboxylic acids in a surface soil sample collected from the Atacama Desert and a carbonate-rich stromatolite sample from Svalbard. However, the rapid reaction of MTBSTFA with water in several analog materials that contained high abundances of hydrated minerals, and the possible deactivation of derivatized compounds by iron oxides, as detected by XRD/XRF using the CheMin field unit Terra, proved to be highly problematic for the direct extraction of organics using MTBSTFA. The combination of pyrolysis and two different wet-chemical derivatization methods employed by SAM should enable a wide range of organic compounds to be detected by GCMS if present on Mars.