Quadrupole mass spectrometers are perhaps the simplest of mass spec instruments. Functioning effectively like a radio, the quadrupole MS – so-named because of its four charged rods, which run parallel to the flight paths of the ions it measures – filter ions by mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) by altering the voltages in the rods. Quadrupole mass spectrometers are available in a variety of formats, including a single quadrupole mass spectrometer, a triple quadrupole MS (three quadrupoles arranged in tandem), and a Q-TOF (a triple quad variant in which the third quadrupole is replaced with a time-of-flight mass analyzer).
Quadrupole mass analyzers are often used for targeted, quantitative applications and can be used either to measure one or a few given ions in a mixture, or to scan across a range of m/z values. Depending on the configuration, they can facilitate both MS and MS/MS applications. For instance, in a triple-quadrupole mass spectrometer, you can select ions for analysis in the first quadrupole, fragment them by collision with a gas in the second quadrupole, and analyze the resulting fragmentation ions in the third quadrupole.
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Company | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
Item | Orbitrap Astral Mass Spectrometer | Q Exactive™ UHMR Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap™ Mass Spectrometer | Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ Plus Hybrid Orbitrap™ Mass Spectrometer | TSQ Altis™ MD Mass Spectrometer | TSQ Quantis™ MD Mass Spectrometer |
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Catalog Number | Orbitrap Astral Mass Spectrometer | IQLAAEGAAPFALGMAZR | IQLAAEGAAPFALGMBDK | IQLAAEGAAXFAQSMBLC | IQLAAEGAAXFAQTMBLA |
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Ionization Method(s) | Adjustable heated electrospray ionization (HESI) probe | Inquire | Inquire | Inquire | Inquire |
Mass Analyzer | Orbitrap mass analyzer ranging from 7,500 to 480,000 resolution at m/z 200
Astral mass analyzer is operated at a single resolution setting of 80,000 at m/z 524 | UHMR Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap™ | Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap™ | Triple quadrupole | Triple quadrupole |
Scanning Speed | Up to 200 Hz | up to 12 Hz at resolution setting of 12,500 at m/z 400 | Up to 12 Hz | Inquire | Inquire |
Mass Range | Maximum Astral mass analyzer resolution up to 80,000 FWHM at m/z 524
Maximum Orbitrap mass analyzer resolution of up to 480,000 FWHM at m/z 200 | 350 to 80,000 m/z | 50 to 6,000 m/z | 5 to 3000 m/z | 5 to 3000 m/z |
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