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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1989
Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Abstract
An improved capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE)/ mass spectrometer interface comprises a liquid junction adapted to makeup the volume/flow rate of the CZE column eluent stream to be more compatible with the ion spray LC/MS interface flow rates required by mass spectrometer detectors in on-line separation/detection systems for variouscompositions and mixtures including biological fluids and environmental samples. Analytes eluting from the CZE capillary column are diluted with a suitable buffer thereby adjusting the volume and flow rates to prevent flow and pressure discrepanies which would otherwise result in peak broadening. The new liquid junction system for CZE/MS and CZE/MS/MS is useful in separating, detecting and analyzing compositions and mixtures such as amino acids, pesticides, peptides, mucleotides, sulfonated azo dyes and enzymatic digests such as tryptic digest of recombinant bovine somatotropan. Detection can be carried out in both positive and negative ion modes. High separation efficiencies ranging from 50,000 to 1,000,000 theoretical plates and peak asymmetries of 1.2 to 1.8 for tryptic digest are achieved.