This is an Application Brief and does not contain a detailed Experimental section.
This application brief demonstrates analysis of protriptyline in rat plasma by mixed-mode weak cation exchange and LC-MS/MS.
The compound analyzed in this study is protriptyline.
            
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                     Column:  | 
                     XTerra MS C18 2.1 x 20 mm IS, 3.5 μm  | 
            
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                     Part number:  | 
                     186001923  | 
            
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                     Mobile phase A:  | 
                     10 mM NH4HCO3, pH 10  | 
            
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                     Mobile phase B:  | 
                     MeOH with 10 mM NH4HCO3, pH 10  | 
            
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                     Flow rate:  | 
                     0.4 mL/min  | 
            
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                     Injection volume:  | 
                     10 μL  | 
            
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                     Column temperature:  | 
                     Ambient  | 
            
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                     Instrument:  | 
                     Waters 2777 Sample Manager and Waters 1525μ Binary HPLC Pump  | 
            
            
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                     Waters Micromass Quattro Ultima  | 
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                     ESI+  | 
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                     Source temp.:  | 
                     150 °C  | 
            
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                     Desolvation temp.:  | 
                     350 °C  | 
            
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                     Cone gas flow:  | 
                     50 L/Hr  | 
            
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                     Desolvation gas flow:  | 
                     550 L/Hr  | 
            
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                     Collision cell:  | 
                     2.2e-3 bar (Argon gas)  | 
            
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                     Cone voltage:  | 
                     60 volts  | 
            
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                     CID:  | 
                     25eV  | 
            
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                     MRM transition:  | 
                     m/z 264.0 → 191.1  | 
            
            
        
            
        WA31764.196, June 2003