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Agilent Mass Hunter Workstation Software – Data Acquisition for 6410 Triple Quad LC/MS Familiarization Guide Before you begin 3 Prepare your system 3 Prepare to acquire data 3 Exercise – Develop an ac...
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In this exercise, you create an acquisition method for a mixture of four sulfa drugs, optimizing both the fragmentor and collision energy voltages to maximize sensitivity. One of the ways to optimize ...
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Before you begin Prepare your system Before you begin Before you begin, you need to check that your system is ready. If you plan to acquire data, you also need to set up the instrument. Prepare your s...
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Before you begin Prepare to acquire data Prepare the LC solvent. In 1-liter reservoirs of HPLC-grade water and acetonitrile (ACN), add 1 ml of 5M NH4HCO2 (Ammonium Formate) each to make 5m M NH4HCO2 i...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 1. Enter acquisition parameters and acquire data Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 For this exercise you analyze a mixtur...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 1. Enter acquisition parameters and acquire data Table 1 LC parameters for sulfa drug mix Parameter Value Draw Position 3.0 mm UV DETECTOR Ch...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 1. Enter acquisition parameters and acquire data Figure 1 Agilent Mass Hunter Workstation Software – Data Acquisition window Agilent 6410 Tri...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 1. Enter acquisition parameters and acquire data Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Enter MS parameters appropriate Click the MS QQQ tab in...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 1. Enter acquisition parameters and acquire data Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Acquire data (optional). If necessary, click the Workli...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 2. Determine precursor ion masses Task 2. Determine precursor ion masses In this exercise, you determine the precursor ions for each of the s...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 2. Determine precursor ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Do one of the following: The figure below shows the default Select the...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 2. Determine precursor ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Determine precursor ion masses In the Chromatogram Results The system ...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Task 3 shows you how to ...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments In the Acquisition tab, enter the With the MS2SI...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Set up and run the worklist Click the Worklist i...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Set up a qualitative method to view Click File &...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments If necessary, click Define The default Method Ed...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Extract the chromatogram for the To apply the me...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Extract the remaining ion Select File Open Actio...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Click Open. The Qualitative Analysis program dis...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Agilent 6410 Triple Quad LC/MS Familiarization G...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 3. Find optimum fragmentor voltage for maximum response Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Select the fragmentor voltage that In the Data N...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Task 4. Determine product ion masses In this part of the method development, we will use three collision ener...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Set up a qualitative method to Click the Open Data File icon in the The ...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments From the Method Explorer in the These data files contain MS/MS Chromatog...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments To apply the changes to the current method, iiiexercise1.m, click the Sa...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Figure 3 Results for integration and extraction of peak spectra. Agilent...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Run the ‘File Open’ actions on the Click File > Open Data File. After...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 4. Determine product ion masses Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Identify product ions. In the Data Navigator, select the TICs The m/z 15...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 5. Find optimum collision energy for MRM acquisition Task 5. Find optimum collision energy for MRM acquisition In this task, you set up MRM a...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 5. Find optimum collision energy for MRM acquisition Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Compare the compound transition Open the Qualitativ...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 5. Find optimum collision energy for MRM acquisition Steps Detailed Instructions Comments Unless you decide to acquire MRMs at You now have a...
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Exercise – Develop an acquisition method for the 6410 Task 5. Find optimum collision energy for MRM acquisition Table 3 Compound Energy MRM Transition Fragmentor Collision Sulfamethizole 271.0 > 15...
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www.agilent.com In This Book This exercise helps you use the Agilent 6410 Triple Quad LC/MS system. In this guide you learn how to develop an acquisition method. If you have comments about this guide,...