Аннотация:It was recently recognized that chemical and structural information about individual
compounds of complex mixture can be revealed using isotope exchange combined with
ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry [1, 2]. This approach makes possible to enumerate
active hydrogens and oxygens in thousands of compounds simultaneously. Here we
present the application of the H/D exchange FT ICR MS for the investigation of humic
substances, petroleum, bio-oil, wood pyrolysis produces etc. It was observed that
compounds in regular crude oil have either 1 (naphthenic acids) or 0 (nitrogen containing
compounds) labile hydrogen. Investigation of oil from ancient (V B.C.) Greek amphora
revealed that ageing of oil in the presence of oxygen leads to the formation of compounds
with 2 –OH groups. We have observed up to 3 labile hydrogens in wood pyrolysis
products. We didn’t observe labile hydrogens in positive ions of nitrogen containing
compounds of the bio-oil produced by hydrothermal liquefaction, such results indicates
that such compounds are present in form of onium compounds. For humic substances, the
number of labile hydrogens changes from 1 to 6 in the mass range 200-600 Da and
increases with the molecular weight.