Exercise 1 – Develop an acquisition method
Task 2. Determine precursor ion masses
Agilent 6400 Series Triple Quad LC/MS Familiarization Guide 11
Task 2. Determine precursor ion masses
In this exercise, you determine the precursor ions for each of the sulfa drugs
in the acquired data file.
Steps Detailed Instructions Comments
1 Open the acquired data file.
• In the Qualitative Analysis
program, open either the
example file, sulfamix01.d, or
the data file you created in “Task
1. Enter acquisition parameters
and acquire data” on page 6.
a Double-click the Qualitative Analysis
icon.
The program displays the “Open Data
File” dialog box.
• When you open the sulfa drug
directory after installation, the Load
result data (lower left corner)
check box is grayed out.
• If you see the check box marked,
this means that the data file(s)
already contains results. Clear this
check box before opening the file.