Save Time with Positive Analyte Identification to Provide Unquestionable Results
Combine ion chromatography separations with MS detection and your results will stand out like never before. Gain confidence in your determinations by positively identifying the analytes in your samples. With IC and MS together, you can determine ionic and polar compounds that other techniques just can’t match. The chromatographic separation isolates analytes and interferences from other analytes, while the mass spectrometer information provides a fingerprint for each analyte. You can determine parameters such as oxidation state speciation, molecular mass identification, isotope ratios, and fragmentation patterns while avoiding coelution and background interferences.
Save Money by Minimizing Sample Preparation Steps
Why waste time preparing samples when you don’t need to? Automated filtration and undiluted injections are common with Dionex IC columns. Our columns provide consistent separations for a broad selection of compounds. Reagent-FreeTM Ion Chromatography systems with eluent generation (RFIC-EG) technology provide carefree reagent preparation and automated removal of sample and controls mobile phase ionic strength. Special method development is not required for the MS—the systems use standard IC conditions. IC technology provides a perfect match for MS detection; “prepared” bands of analytes flow into the sensitive and selective MS detector.
Discover New Levels of Sensitivity and Specificity
Supply results for even the most difficult samples. Identify analytes that you or your customers may not have known about due to lack of separation or detection in conventional IC. Adding a second dimension to your method provides a whole new level of information. Not just any MS delivers these results. Low-mass species, such as many small ions, require instrument refinements. The MSQTM Plus with its enhanced low-mass capabilities delivers results for small ions critical to you. Low-mass response is improved 10- to 100-fold for ions with m/z below 100. Need even more sensitivity? Use the classic preconcentration and matrix elimination techniques available with Dionex high-capacity columns. Determining organic acids in pharmaceutical preparations, cation and amines in industrial chemicals, or perchlorate in groundwater are only a few of the applications that become routine with IC/MS.
