JMSSJ On-line, Vol. 43 (1995) No. 1, pp. 77-83
Electrochemical Reduction and Highly-Sensitive Analysis of Iodine in Electrospray Mass Spectrometry
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    Kenzo HIRAOKA,*a) Keiichi AIZAWA,a) Konosuke MURATA,a) and Susumu FUJIMAKIa)

    *a) Faculty of Engineering, Yamanashi University (Takeda-4, Kofu 400, Japan)

Iodine (I2) was found to be detected as I- with high sensitivity when solution of iodine in i-C3H7OH-H2O-CHCl3 (8:2:0.5, v/v) was electrosprayed in the negative ion mode. The strong appearance of I- in electrospray mass spectra is due to the reduction of I2 to I- at the liquid/metal interface of the electrospray capillary needle. When the concentration of iodine in solution was increased (≥ 10-5 M)), the negative ions I3- and I5- as well as I- were observed. The lower limit of iodine concentration for the detection of I2 as I- was -10-9 M. This indicates that the electrospray ionization mass spectrometry could be the new method for the analysis of iodine with high sensitivity.

Key words: Electrospray, Iodine, I-, I3-, I5-

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