Tandem mass spectrometry of silver-adducted ferrocenyl catalyst complexes.
Ferrocene is a popular template in material science due to its exceptional characteristics that offer the ability to optimize the selectivity and activity of catalysts by the addition of carefully selected substituents. In combinatorial catalyst development, the high susceptibility to electrophilic substitution reactions offers the opportunity for the rapid introduction of molecular diversity. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based continuous-flow systems can be applied to rapidly evaluate catalyst performance as well as to (provisionally) identify the introduced catalyst complexes. Herein, we describe the fragmentation characteristics of the [ferrocenyl bidentate + Ag](+) catalyst complexes in dedicated (high-resolution) MS(n) experiments. The investigation of the fragmentation patterns of a selected number of catalyst classes is accompanied with a density functional theory investigation of fragmentation intermediates in order to assess the viability of a selected fragmentation mechanism.
Division of Biomolecular Analysis and Spectroscopy, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Cornelius T
CT
Martha
Willem-Jan
WJ
van Zeist
F Matthias
FM
Bickelhaupt
Hubertus
H
Irth
Wilfried M A
WM
Niessen
D002384:Catalysis; D005296:Ferrous Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D007477:Ions / Q000737:chemistry; D000075163:Metallocenes; D018030:Silver Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D053719:Tandem Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D013816:Thermodynamics
D005296:Ferrous Compounds; D007477:Ions; D000075163:Metallocenes; D018030:Silver Compounds; C004998:ferrocene