Optimization of Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization for the Crude Oil Analysis Using Ultra-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry

Design of experiments (DOE) applied to mass spectrometry (MS), mainly focusing on the optimization of ionization techniques, has been applied to optimize experiments in order to provide the highest amount of information with the lowest number of experiments. However, DOE has not been used in petroleomics. For the first time, we applied DOE to optimize the main parameters associated with the crude oil analysis in a petroleomics approach. For the ionization technique, atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI) has been selected and data were acquired in a high resolution (400,000 at m/z 400) and high mass accuracy (