A Tentative Compound Identification is Required, But the Library Hit Does Not Seem Correct. What is the Next Step? Accurate Mass, Lower Energy Ionizations, and MS/MS

A full GC/MS discussion will include inlet considerations, column chemistries, the ability to acquire multiple ionization techniques and MS/MS to provide as much information as possible for an unknown component. Running the methods and producing the data is the easy part, and the additional tools and programs within the MassHunter portfolio will provide high confidence in the data analysis quicker.

Presenter: Matt Curtis (GC/MS Applications Scientist, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Matt joined Agilent in 2013 as a GC/MS applications scientist in the Santa Clara, CA Center of Excellence, with GC/MS experience starting as an undergraduate. His primary responsibility is focused on providing instrument demos for customer interested in each technology Agilent offers; the GC/MS single quadrupole, triple quadrupole and the quadrupole Time-of-Flight. The variety of different applications submitted to the demo lab provide a unique knowledge of optimizing parameters for each experiment.