Picomolar-scale compound-specific isotope analyses

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 730-738

  Baczynski, Allison A ^a   Polissar, Pratigya J ^b   Juchelka, Dieter ^c   Schwieters, Johannes ^c   Hilkert, Andreas ^c   Summons, Roger E ^d   Freeman, Katherine H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; DATA ACQUISITION; FIRMWARE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CARBON; PARAFFINS;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; C VALUES; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; HIGH-PRECISION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; N-ALKANES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PEAK WIDTHS; SAMPLE SIZES;

ION SOURCES;

EID: 85045519596     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.8084     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Sessions AL. Isotope-ratio detection for gas chromatography. J Sep Sci. 2006;29:1946-1961.
2. Barrie A, Bricout J, Koziet J. Gas chromatography–stable isotope ratio analysis at natural abundance levels. Biomed Mass Spectrom. 1984;11:583-588.
3. Freeman KH, Hayes JM, Trendel JM, Albrecht P. Evidence from carbon isotopic measurements for diverse origins of sedimentary hydrocarbons. Nature. 1990;343:254-256.
4. Hayes JM, Freeman KH, Popp BN, Hoham CH. Compound-specific isotopic analyses – a novel tool for reconstruction of ancient biogeochemical processes. Org Geochem. 1990;16:1115-1128.
5. Matthews DE, Hayes JM. Isotope-ratio-monitoring gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Anal Chem. 1978;50:1465-1473.
6. Merritt DA, Freeman KH, Ricci MP, Studley SA, Hayes JM. Performance and optimization of a combustion interface for isotope ratio monitoring gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Anal Chem. 1995;67:2461-2473.
7. Merritt DA, Hayes JM. Factors controlling precision and accuracy in isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometry. Anal Chem. 1994;66:2336-2347.
8. Ricci MP, Merritt DA, Freeman KH, Hayes JM. Acquisition and processing of data for isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometry. Org Geochem. 1994;21:561-571.
9. Goodman KJ. Hardware modifications to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer continuous-flow interface yielding improved signal, resolution, and maintenance. Anal Chem. 1998;70:833-837.
10. 15N analysis with an extended dynamic range. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 1999;13:1237-1241.
11. Murphy MTJ. Analytical methods. Org Geochem. 1969;21:673-683.
12. Thompson RW. Recent advances in the understanding of zeolite synthesis. In: Karge HG, Weitkamp J, eds. Molecular Sieves Science and Technology. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag; 1998:1-33.
13. 30+). Org Geochem. 2008;39:284-288.
14. Harris KDM. Investigating the structure and dynamics of a family of organic solids: the alkane/urea inclusion compounds. J Solid State Chem. 1993;106:83-98.
15. Harris KDM. Structural and dynamic properties of urea and thiourea inclusion compounds. J Mol Struct. 1996;374:241-250.
16. Xu S, Sun Y. An improved method for the microseparation of straight chain and branched/cyclic alkanes: urea inclusion paper layer chromatography. Org Geochem. 2005;36:1334-1338.
17. Collister JW. An isotopic biogeochemical study of the Green River oil shale (Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado). PhD thesis, Indiana University, USA; 1992:207.
18. Grice K. Distributions and stable carbon isotopic compositions of individual biological markers from the Permian Kupferschiefer (Lower Rhine Basin, N.W. Germany). PhD thesis, University of Bristol, UK; 1995.
19. Grice K, Schaeffer P, Schwark L, Maxwell JR. Molecular indicators of palaeoenvironmental conditions in an immature Permian shale (Kupferschiefer, Lower Rhine Basin, N.W. Germany) from free and sulfide-bound lipids. Org Geochem. 1996;25:131-147.
20. Brocks JJ, Love GD, Summons RE, Knoll AH, Logan GA, Bowden SA. Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea. Nature. 2005;437:866-870.
21. Grosjean E, Love GD, Stalvies C, Fike DA, Summons RE. Origin of petroleum in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin. Org Geochem. 2009;40:87-110.
22. Wing SL, Clyde WC, Gingerich PD, et al. PETM stratigraphy of the Basin Substation core. Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene. Snowbird Resort, Utah, USA; 2017.
23. Deans DR. A new technique for heart cutting in gas chromatography. Chromatographia. 1968;1:18-22.
24. Sacks GL, Zhang Y, Brenna JT. Fast gas chromatography combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Anal Chem. 2007;79:6348-6358.
25. Tobias HJ, Brenna JT. Microfabrication of high temperature micro-reactors for continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Microfluidics Nanofluidics. 2010;9:461-470.
26. Ellis L, Fincannon AL. Analytical improvements in IRM-GC/MS analyses: advanced techniques in tube furnace design and sample preparation. Org Geochem. 1998;29:1101-1117.
27. Helmig D, Vierling L. Water adsorption capacity of the solid adsorbents Tenax TA, Tenax GR, Carbotrap, Carbotrap C, Carbosieve SIII, and Carboxen 569 and water management techniques for the atmospheric sampling of volatile organic trace gases. Anal Chem. 1995;67:4380-4386.
28. Goodman KJ, Brenna JT. High-precision gas chromatography-combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry at low signal levels. J Chromatogr A. 1995;689:63-68.
29. Peterson DW, Hayes JM. Signal to noise ratios in mass spectroscopic ion-current measurement systems. Contemp Topics Anal Clin Chem. 1978;3:217-252.
30. Flenker U, Hebestreit M, Piper T, Hülsemann F, Schänzer W. Improved performance and maintenance in gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry by precolumn solvent removal. Anal Chem. 2007;79:4162-4168.
31. Summons RE, Powell TG, Boreham CJ. Petroleum geology and geochemistry of the Middle Proterozoic McArthur Basin, Northern Australia: III. Composition of extractable hydrocarbons. Geochim Cosmochim Acta. 1988;52:1747-1763.
32. Lee C. A lipid biomarker and stable isotopic investigation of ediacaran and modern marine microbial communities and carbon cycling. PhD thesis, University of California, Riverside, USA; 2016.
33. Luo G, Hallmann C, Xie S, Ruan X, Summons RE. Comparative microbial diversity and redox environments of black shale and stromatolite facies in the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation. Geochim Cosmochim Acta. 2015;151:150-167.
34. Kenig F, Popp BN, Summons RE. Preparative HPLC with ultrastable-Y zeolite for compound-specific carbon isotopic analyses. Org Geochem. 2000;31:1087-1094.