I am running some GC-MS samples that have been derivatized using BSTFA. Is there an option in ChemStation (or an open source software) to automatically adjust the m/z values for compounds based on the number of activated hydrogens a compound has, and subsequently search the spectra to ID derivatized compounds, similarly to what you can do if they were underivatized? It seems like a huge hassle to do this for each compound manually
To add to Dr. Davies excellent answer, you can't quantify them without a standard and you'd have to set that up manually anyway.
Chemstation has a macro language; you could do what you are proposing in code. Gonna take you a LONG time to write that code, so manually updating Chemstation is probably your fastest option.
All good answers already!
I would recommend derivitizing the standards and working off those, which is what I interpret Dr. Davies' answer already stated. That has worked well for me in the past--good luck, Ali!
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