Waters Introduces New Mass Detector

Waters recently launched the new Waters® ACQUITY® QDaTM Mass Spectrometer Detector, the first mass spectrometer detector to provide high-quality mass spectral data for chromatographic separations. Waters has now begun shipping the new mass spectrometer detector to the world.

The ACQUITY QDa Detector is specifically designed to complement the chromatographic separation system with Waters Ultra Performance LC (UPLC®), Ultra Performance Convergence Chromatography (UPC2®) The combination of Alliance® High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Waters Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) and LC-based purification systems.

"The ACQUITY QDa Detector fulfilled Waters' dream more than 20 years ago," said Waters President Art Caputo. "We foresee that there will be a day when chromatography and mass spectrometry will be combined in some way. Analytical scientists can easily obtain reliable mass spectrometry data from their previous experience with mass spectrometry.After decades of introduction of the first photodiode detector, the ACQUITY QDa Detector brought a whole new dimension to separation science. This is the most significant leap in the field of chromatographic detection."

The ACQUITY QDa Detector is the pinnacle of Waters's 30-year history of mass spectrometry and innovation. It has 37 patents and new patents that address the complexity, instrument volume, and cost of day-to-day mass spectrometry applications. It was developed specifically around the needs of analytical scientists, freeing up the operational complexity of mass spectrometers and allowing scientists to easily obtain mass spectral data. Analytical scientists have always hoped that mass spectrometry can be accomplished with simple switching operations. Now that the ACQUITY QDa Detector has made this wish a reality, it can fully automate sample analysis and avoid the specific tuning of samples, resulting in different users Get consistent and reliable results from different systems. The durability and reliability of the ACQUITY QDa Detector are fully satisfactory for everyday applications, so that a mass spectrometer detector equivalent to a photodiode array (PDA) detector can be used to obtain mass spectrometers unique to single quadrupole mass spectrometers. data.

The ACQUITY QDa detector uses mass spectrometry information to accurately identify compounds, supplementing the deficiencies of optical detectors such as PDAs. In addition, the ACQUITY QDa Detector extends the sample detection limit of chromatographic separations, allowing UV non-responsive compounds as well as compounds that cannot be detected or quantified by optical detection. The detector simplifies the workflow in the laboratory and eliminates the need for additional testing or other time-consuming techniques. This improves the quality and efficiency of each analysis and enables reliable identification and quantification of sample compounds.

The ACQUITY QDa Detector is currently available for separation systems running Empower® 2&3 Chromatography Data System (CDS) software, including web-based software with automatic verification. Empower 3 integrates the processing of mass spectrometry data and UV spectral data with separation systems that collect these data. The ACQUITY QDa detector also supports MassLynx® 4.1 MS software.