A high-pressure 20-segment quadrupole collision cell (HP-SQCC), which replaces a collision cell in a modified triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer is investigated in this work as an ion-molecule reactor with an inherent heat source. The highest working pressure achievable is 20 mTorr. The 20 quadrupole segments permit superimposition of linear axial electric field over the conventional quadrupole field in the radial direction. The axial and radial fields are employed to control ion temperature. Heat is transferred to the reactants through ion frictional heating. The HP-SQCC utilizes a combination of several physicochemical phenomena and an attempt is made to examine a range of ion-molecule reactions. Due to a sufficiently large number of reactive collisions, the reactor is used to promote sequential exothermic ion-molecule reactions. To characterize the performance of the HP-SQCC, the various ion-molecule reactions between the fragment ions of ferrocene ( on-molecule reactions have captured the fascination of mass spectrometrists for a number of decades and have been probed using a variety of instrumentation, including Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance spectrometry, ion-trap mass spectrometry, triplequadrupole mass spectrometry and the selected-ion flow tube technique [1]. The conventional triplequadrupole mass spectrometer is a less than perfect instrument for an examination of ion-molecule reactions due to the relatively low pressure achievable in its second quadrupole (Q 2 ), which restricts the number of ion-molecule collisions, and to the limited control of ion energy within Q 2 . Nevertheless, reactions that lead to novel products have been discovered; one such reaction is the ligand-exchange reaction between [Pb(CH 3 ; Pb 2ϩ had previously been described as to be among "a select group of doubly charged metal ions that will not form stable complexes in the gas phase with water" [3].Here we report the first ion-molecule reaction results obtained on a high-pressure 20-segment quadrupole collision cell (HP-SQCC) that functions as the Q 2 in a modified triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer. The highest working pressure achievable is 20 mTorr with neon, about 4 times higher than that achievable on a standard triple-quadrupole instrument. The 20 quadrupole segments permit superimposition of an axial electric field, typically linear, over the conventional quadrupole field in the radial direction [4][5][6]. The HP-SQCC was originally developed for ion-mobility measurements [5,7], where the goal is to maintain the drift field low enough that the ion temperature is not increased significantly. In this study, we are exploring the use of the HP-SQCC as an efficient apparatus for utilizing ion-molecule reactions as an analytical method. The axial and radial fields are employed to control the ion temperature.To characterize the performance of the HP-SQCC, we have elected to use as probes the various ionmolecule reactions between the fragment ions of ferrocene (Cp 2 Fe) as well as cobaltocene (Cp 2 Co) and neutra...