PMID- 30927182 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20200106 LR - 20200225 IS - 1879-1123 (Electronic) IS - 1044-0305 (Linking) VI - 30 IP - 8 DP - 2019 Aug TI - Temperature-Dependent DART-MS Analysis of Sexual Lubricants to Increase Accurate Associations. PG - 1343-1358 LID - 10.1007/s13361-019-02158-x [doi] AB - The analysis of lubricant evidence is a recent development in sexual assault investigations and in the absence of any biological evidence may assist in linking an assailant to the victim or crime scene. An ambient ionization technique, high-resolution direct analysis in real-time mass spectrometry (HR-DART-MS), was employed to characterize a sample set of 33 water-based lubricants. As lubricants are complex multicomponent mixtures, this study investigated if different thermal desorption temperatures could elucidate different additives and provide additional information. A low-temperature, high-temperature, and thermal desorption/pyrolysis DART-MS protocol was used to characterize the water-based lubricant sample set. The strength of the methodologies was evaluated using positive and negative likelihood ratios that were calculated from inter- and intra-pairwise comparisons using Pearson correlation coefficients. The low-temperature DART-MS protocol afforded valuable information pertaining to volatile additives (e.g., flavors and fragrances) and provided positive likelihood ratios that would provide strong support for true positive and negatives than the high-temperature protocol when associating between individual samples and samples to their respective sub-groupings. The thermal desorption/pyrolysis DART analytical protocol provided enhanced differentiation between samples due to the precise temperature control using a thermal gradient. Moreover, the total ion spectra obtained from the thermal desorption/pyrolysis protocol, not only had high positive and negative likelihood ratios, this method also provided the most discrimination as determined by empirical cross entropy plots. Graphical Abstract. FAU - Bridge, Candice AU - Bridge C AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0472-3025 AD - Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA. cbridge@ucf.edu. AD - National Center for Forensic Science, University of Central Florida, PO Box 162367, Orlando, FL, 32816-2367, USA. cbridge@ucf.edu. FAU - Maric, Mark AU - Maric M AD - National Center for Forensic Science, University of Central Florida, PO Box 162367, Orlando, FL, 32816-2367, USA. LA - eng GR - 2016-DN-BX-0001/National Institute of Justice/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190329 PL - United States TA - J Am Soc Mass Spectrom JT - Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry JID - 9010412 RN - 0 (Excipients) RN - 0 (Lubricants) RN - 059QF0KO0R (Water) SB - IM EIN - J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2019 Jul;30(7):1336. PMID: 31062290 MH - Equipment Design MH - Excipients/chemistry MH - Forensic Sciences MH - Lubricants/*chemistry MH - Mass Spectrometry/instrumentation/methods MH - Temperature MH - Water/chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - HR-DART-MS OT - Likelihood ratios OT - Lubricant analysis OT - Pearson correlation EDAT- 2019/03/31 06:00 MHDA- 2020/01/07 06:00 CRDT- 2019/03/31 06:00 PHST- 2018/12/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/02/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/02/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2019/03/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/01/07 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/03/31 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s13361-019-02158-x [pii] AID - 10.1007/s13361-019-02158-x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 2019 Aug;30(8):1343-1358. doi: 10.1007/s13361-019-02158-x. Epub 2019 Mar 29.