Effects of the supercharging reagents m-NBA and sulfolane on sodium ion adduction to protein ions formed using native mass spectrometry were investigated. There is extensive sodium adduction on protein ions formed by electrospray ionization from aqueous solutions containing millimolar concentrations of NaCl, which can lower sensitivity by distributing the signal of a given charge state over mul...

Boiling points have been determined at 101.33 kPa for the binary mixtures of sulfolane + o-xylene, sulfolane + m-xylene, sulfolane+p-xylene, sulfolane+ethylbenzene and sulfolane+1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. Calculations of the non-ideality of the vapor phase were made with the second virial coefficients evaluated from the Hayden–O’Connell method. The binary parameters for five activity coefficient m...

Sulfolane, a water-soluble organosulfur compound, is used industrially worldwide and is associated with one of the largest contaminated groundwater plumes in the state of Alaska. Despite being widely used, little is understood about the degradation of sulfolane in the environment, especially in cold regions. We conducted aerobic and anaerobic microcosm studies to assess the biological and abiot...

The investment and annual costs for a separation of aromatic hydrocarbons from a naphtha feed (~10 % aromatics) can be 35 to 70 % lower for an extraction with ionic liquids compared to an extraction with sulfolane. Aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylenes) and C4 C10 aliphatic hydrocarbons are normally separated by liquid extraction, extractive distillation or azeotrop...

A new approach using fast atom bombardment combined with mass spectrometry to characterize polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the range of 128-252 u molecular weight is described. Sulfolane was employed as a liquid matrix for these π-conjugated hydrocarbons. Bombardment of sulfolane solution of certain PAHs with an atom beam produces both radical cation (M(+.)) and protonated molecule [...

Sulfolane (C4H8SO2; CAS 126-33-0) is a solvent used for gas treatment in a number of industrial processes. It is known under a variety of synonyms and trade names including bondelane A, 2,3,4,5-tetrahydrothiophene-1,1dioxide, and tetramethylene sulfone. It has a molecular weight of 120.17 g·mol, a density of 1.276 g·cm at 15°C, an aqueous solubility of 1,266,000 mg·L at 20°C, a log Koc of 0.07,...