TORONTO, Aug. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- At the
International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC 2016), Bruker
today introduced the next-generation solariX™ 2XR Fourier
Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS) to accelerate 'extreme
resolution' mass spectrometry with mass resolving powers in the
range of 1-10 million, which are not achievable with any other mass
spectrometry technologies.
The new solariX 2XR system, with an affordable 7
Tesla magnet, further advances the revolutionary method of isotope
fine structure (IFS) mass spectrometry by reducing the time
necessary to acquire IFS mass spectra, and by making IFS analysis
easy and routine for broad applicability in chemistry
research.
Its novel OMEGA detection electronics effectively doubles
the detected ion cyclotron frequencies, thereby cutting in half the
required measurement time to obtain IFS in time-sensitive small
molecule workflows such as LC/MS and MALDI MS imaging. This
patented enhancement to the acclaimed ParaCell FTMS detector
cell increases the resolving power even further to a
record-breaking 1.2 million in one second at m/z 200,
with excellent quantitative isotope ratio fidelity. The unique
solariX 2XR system also can routinely acquire mass
spectra with more than 10 million resolving power,
providing clear separation of molecular details that cannot be
resolved with any other technologies, for the analysis of extremely
complex mixtures in petroleomics, dissolved organic matter (DOM),
MS imaging, metabolomics or top-down proteomics.
The previous generation solariX XR FTMS introduced
analytical chemists to powerful isotopic fine structure (IFS)
analysis with unprecedented molecular sum formula specificity,
where the exact elemental composition of a small molecule can be
unambiguously obtained directly from extreme resolution mass
spectra. In the last few years, this level of IFS specificity
has quickly become a routine tool in small molecule analysis,
whether in metabolomics, pharmaceutical research, forensics or
small molecule MS imaging.
Researchers at the RIKEN Center of Sustainable Resource Science
in Yokohama, Japan, have been
successfully utilizing the power of IFS for several years to
unravel the complexities of plant metabolomics. They have recently
employed the IFS method to discover novel drug targets from
asparagus. Dr. Ryo Nakabayshi
of the RIKEN metabolomics function research group commented: "The
extreme resolving power only offered by FT-ICR-MS technology
enabled us to create a powerful IFS workflow to efficiently
discover and identify new bioactive, sulfur-containing metabolites
in plants. We expect that the further improvements in the new
solariX 2XR system will significantly increase the ease and
speed associated with implementing IFS into a wide variety of
analytical roles."
For more information on the solariX, please visit
http://www.bruker.com/solariX.
About Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR)
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breakthrough discoveries and develop new applications that improve
the quality of human life. Bruker's high-performance
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