title: Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry studies of cyclodextrin-carboxylate ion inclusion complexes.
abstract: Aqueous solutions containing simple model aliphatic and alicyclic carboxylic acids (surrogates 1-4) were studied using negative ion electrospray mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) in the presence and absence of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-cyclodextrin. Molecular ions were detected corresponding to the parent carboxylic acids and complexed forms of the carboxylic acids; the latter corresponding to non-covalent inclusion complexes formed between carboxylic acid and cyclodextrin compounds (e.g., beta-CD, alpha-CD, and gamma-CD). The formation of 1:1 non-covalent inclusion cyclodextrin-carboxylic complexes and non-inclusion forms of the cellobiose-carboxylic acid compounds was also observed.Aqueous solutions of Syncrude-derived mixtures of aliphatic and alicyclic carboxylic acids (i.e. naphthenic acids; NAs) were similarly studied using ESI-MS, as outlined above. Molecular ions corresponding to the formation of CD-NAs inclusion complexes were observed whereas 1:1 non-inclusion forms of the cellobiose-NAs complexes were not detected. The ESI-MS results provide evidence for some measure of inclusion selectivity according to the 'size-fit' of the host and guest molecules (according to carbon number) and the hydrogen deficiency (z-series) of the naphthenic acid compounds. The relative abundances of the molecular ions of the CD-carboxylate anion adducts provide strong support for differing complex stability in aqueous solution. In general, the 1:1 complex stability according to hydrogen deficiency (z-series) of naphthenic acids may be attributed to the nature of the cavity size of the cyclodextrin host compounds and the relative lipophilicity of the guest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, 110 Science Place (Rm. 156), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5C9, Canada.
authors.forename: Mohamed H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.forename: Lee D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: John V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Headley
authors.forename: Kerry M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Peru
mesh_terms: D002264:Carboxylic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D002475:Cellobiose / Q000737:chemistry; D003505:Cyclodextrins / Q000737:chemistry*; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008958:Models, Molecular; D021241:Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D002264:Carboxylic Acids; D003505:Cyclodextrins; D002475:Cellobiose; C046170:naphthenic acid