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We present SPIKE (Spectrometry Processing Innovative KErnel), an open-source Python package dedicated to Fourier spectroscopies. It provides basic functionalities such as apodisation, a complete set of Fourier transforms, phasing for NMR), peak-picking, baseline correction and also tools such as Linear Prediction. Beside its versatility, the most prominent novelty of this package is to incorporate new tools for Big Data processing. This is exemplified by its ability to handle the processing and visualization of very large data-sets, with multiprocessor capabilities and a low memory footprint. The software contains also all the tools necessary for the specific fast processing and visualization of 2D-FTICR-MS data-sets., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures

Our work is focused on two applications of fine tunable microfluidic systems, first to optimize heterogeneous size nanoparticle synthesis and second to build catalytic microreactors for advanced organic reactions. The first part of our work consists in the use of an original microfluidic setup for gold nanoparticle synthesis, which allows a high control of the reaction parameters as the reactants flow, the concentration, the temperature, and the reaction time. We show that using such microfluidic systems permit a better control of the reaction parameters for producing homodispersed 1–2 nm gold nanoparticle. The second part of our work deals with the incorporation of gold nanoparticles into silica capillaries to build catalytic microreactors dedicated to fine chemical reactions. Our strategy consists in the immobilization of gold nanopadiegolirticles onto the inner surface (2D dispersion) or into the inner volume (3D dispersion) of functionalized silica microcapillaries. Characterizations show that by different functionalization procedures, those gold nanoparticles are well anchored inside the microcapillary.

An impetus in the field of mass spectrometry (MS) analysis occurred in the early 1990s with the invention of two novel and 'soft' ionization methods, electrospray ionization (ESI) by John Fenn and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) by Koichi Tanaka, who both shared the Nobel-prize in Chemistry in 2002. http://www.springer.com/chemistry/analytical/book/978-0-85404-129-9

Under basic conditions 1-alkene-3-ols were converted into ketone homoenolates which led to β-alkylated ketones.