@article{f78a23e4321147b9bcaa56f23d427a1c,
title = "Tracking alterations of alkyl side chains of N1 species in heavy crude oil after anaerobic biodegradation with negative‐ion electrospray ionization coupled with high‐field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry",
abstract = "RationaleHeteroatomic compounds are relatively abundant and believed to be bio‐resistant in heavy crude oils. However, few studies have focused on the biodegradation of these heteroatomic compounds.MethodsHeteroatoms, especially N1 species, in a blank crude oil and in three treated oils co‐incubated with anaerobic sulfate‐reducing bacteria, nitrate‐reducing bacteria and fermentative consortia cultures were detected using negative‐ion electrospray ionization coupled with high‐field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry.ResultsThe relative abundance of N1 species in the three treated oils decreased, while the relative abundance of O2 species increased. Remarkably, the relative abundances of N1 species with low carbon number increased and those with higher carbon number decreased.ConclusionsThese results revealed that the anaerobic biodegradations of heavy crude oil occurred. With direct evidences, the degradations of alkyl side chains of N1 species by the anaerobic microbes could be deduced.",
author = "Sanbao Su and Hao Dong and Gaoming Yu and Dujie Hou and Quan Shi and Ibrahim Banat and Zhengliang Wang and Yong'an Gu and Fan Zhang and Yuehui She",
note = "Accepted date on uploaded email is after the E-pub date so asked author for earlier email which he did not have so have set the accepted date to the Epub date. Funding Information: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 51474034, 51504221, 51574038 and 51634008 Funding Information: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51504221, 51474034, 51574038 and 51634008). The authors thank the technical personnel in the oil field for kindly collecting samples, and Professor Shi for the instructions and suggestions during ESI FT‐ICR MS analysis, mass calibration and data processing. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. ",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1002/rcm.8422",
language = "English",
volume = "33",
pages = "875--882",
journal = "Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry",
issn = "0951-4198",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons, Inc.",
number = "9",
}