Is a Parent Ion Scan the best experiment to determine the mass/charge (m/z) for unknown compounds in the background of a sample? - WKB88508
Article number: 88508
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ANSWER
No, the Parent Ion Scan is not the appropriate experiment to determine the m/z for unknown compounds in the background of samples. A Parent Ion Scan experiment is meant to determine what parent ions will produce a specific daughter ion upon fragmentation. An example is the acylcarnatines. All of the compounds fragment to give the daughter ion of m/z = 83.
To determine the m/z for unknown compounds in a sample, the best experiment is the MS Scan.
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