“…Differentiation of chiral isomers can be achieved by comparing the formation, dissociation or reaction behavior of the diastereomers in the gas phase, or their mobilities when combined with the technique of ion mobility ( Tao and Cooks, 2003 ; Wu et al, 2012 ; Awad and El-Aneed, 2013 ; Lanucara et al, 2014 ; Yu and Yao, 2017 ; Han and Yao, 2020 ; Hu et al, 2020 ; Shi et al, 2020 ). The method of infrared multiple photon dissociation (IRMPD) and ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) spectroscopic methods, have also applied to the field and have shown their advantages in providing spectral and structural information of corresponding chiral complexes ( Filippi et al, 2012 ; Liao et al, 2013 ; Fujihara et al, 2016 ; Lee et al, 2017 ; Ren et al, 2017 ; Fujihara and Okawa, 2018 ; Lee et al, 2018 ; Ma et al, 2018 ; Shi et al, 2019 ; Shi et al, 2020 ; Sun et al, 2020 ). Among these MS-based methods, UVPD has been demonstrated to be able to yield abundant radicals in fragmentation processes, thus provides a unique means for generating novel dissociation pathways in tandem mass spectrometry ( Ly and Julian, 2009 ).…”