Detection Of Cadmium-Related Ions By Maldi Tof Mass Spectrometry Correlates With Physicochemical Properties Of Cadmium/Matrix Adducts

Metal acetate complexes are highly interesting in designing and synthesizing metal-organic frameworks, which have potential applications in gas storage, molecular sieves, ion exchange, and catalysis. Cadmium is well recognized as an industrial pollutant and a food contaminant that severely affects human health. For these reasons, the detection and analysis of Cd are of great interest. A major challenge in studying cadmium compounds' structure is that Cd2+ can have a wide range of coordination numbers and diverse geometries. (MA)LDI is extremely useful for detecting Cd(OAc)2.2H2O and investigating Cd's complex and flexible nature. We applied LDI to detect and characterize the Cd-related clusters and MALDI approach to investigate the Cd(OAc)2x2H2O reactivity and detectability with the five different organic matrices. The results revealed that in the solid-state Cd (OAc)2x2H2O tend to form coordination polymers, and in the presence of coordinating ligands (matrix molecules) form smaller complexes. In addition, the correlation between Cd-related LOD and matrix features was observed and discussed, indicating that the LODs of this analyte strongly depend on the optical absorption of the matrix-analyte adduct.