Thursday, June 24, 2010

Academic Special: Lower Operational Cost with a DART for your LC/MS



DART 100S on Waters ZMD


Direct Analysis in Real Time for Reaction


NO solvent, NO columns, NO need to worry about sample solubility, just dip a melting point into your reaction mix and do DART100S.




Single DIP-it® Sampler in position for analysis.



Monitoring in Drug Discovery

Chris Petucci,*,† Jason Diffendal,‡ David Kaufman,‡ Belew Mekonnen,‡ Gene Terefenko,‡ and Brian Musselman§

Discovery Analytical Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry, Wyeth Research, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, and IonSense, Saugus, Massachusetts 01906Direct analysis in real time (DART) is a novel ionization technique that provides for the rapid ionization of small molecules under ambient conditions. In this study, sev¬eral commercially available drugs as well as actual com¬pounds from drug discovery research were examined by LC/UV/ESI-MS and DART interfaced to a quadrupole mass spectrometer. For most compounds, the molecular ions observed by ESI-MS were observed by DART/MS. DART/MS was also studied as a means to quickly monitor synthetic organic reactions and to obtain nearly instanta¬neous molecular weight confirmations of final products in drug discovery. For simple, synthetic organic transfor¬mations, the trends in the intensities of the mass spectral signals for the reactant and product obtained by DART/ MS scaled closely with those of the diode array or the total ion chromatogram obtained by LC/UV/ESI-MS. In sum¬mary, DART is a new tool that complements electrospray ionization for the rapid ionization and subsequent mass spectral analysis of compounds in drug discovery.