Analytical Instrument Documents

A new MALDI-TOF/TOF system with monoisotopic precursor selection was applied to the analysis of triacylglycerols in an olive oil sample. Monoisotopic precursor selection made it possible to obtain product-ion mass spectra without interference from species that differed by a single double bond. Complete structure determination of all triacylglycerols, including structural isomers, was made possible by interpreting the charge-remote fragmentation resulting from high-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) of the sodiated triacylglycerols.

A Japanese lacquer film called "Urushi" is a natural polymer that has been used as a paint and adhesive for living-wares and craft-wares for approximately 8,000 years. "Urushi" has a complex structure that researchers are trying to understand using pyrolysis-gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (Py/GC/MS) system. Recently, we developed a new gas chromatograph/high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer (GC/HR-TOFMS) system that can be used for comprehensive two-dimensional GC (GCxGC) measurements. Additionally, we have developed a unique combination electron ionization/photoionization (EI/PI) ion source that can be used with this GC/HR-TOFMS system. In this work, we measured "Urushi" samples using this unique Py/GCxGC/HR-TOFMS system in combination with our new combination EI/PI ion source.

Fluorine is increasingly being used in many new drugs. Fluorine is now appearing in illicit and illegal synthetic drugs. Fluoro Polymers are important to everyday life, for example PTFE (Teflon™).

NMR Probe for Fluorine NMR. What is needed is a Robust Routine HFX NMR Probe that can do every routine experiment well! Including all HFX experiments, 1H{19F}, 19F{1H}, 13C{1H,19F} & X{1H,19F}.

The JEOL ROYAL HFX NMR probe is the world’s first liquid NMR probe switchable between single tune and dual tune mode on the High Frequency coil without compromising the NMR performance. The ROYAL HFX probe operating in single tune mode has the same sensitivity and pulse width performance as the standard ROYAL NMR probe.

Fluorine is found with an ever-increasing frequency in materials science and both legal and illicit drugs [ref 1-5]. In this application note results are presented to illustrate the simplification afforded by the routine application of triple-resonance NMR to clearly assign voriconazole, a molecule containing proton, carbon, and nitrogen molecules with many atoms exhibiting J-coupling to fluorine. The HFX ROYAL probe is a completely new probe technology utilizing magnetic coupling to afford highly efficient HF-X tuning which can function as a simple switch to highest sensitivity dedicated 1H or 19F or very well balanced dual 1H/19F performance on demand. References 6-8 detail the technological developments for the HFX ROYAL probe.

Datasheet / nail polish (neat) before and after

Datasheet / 1D and 2D cis-3-hexenylcinnamate data

Before Gradient Shimming; After 2 iterations automatic 1H gradient shimming - no deuterated solvent - no manual retouching of shims.

Before Gradient Shimming; After 2 iterations automatic 2H gradient shimming - no manual retouching of shims