Researchers can transfer their existing methods with a simple software upgrade, and can download new application solutions from the company's website and import them directly into the instrument
Agilent Technologies has introduced what it says is the industry's first gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) system featuring a novel user interface that allows the electronic sharing of application methods.
This eliminates the need to manually create an application method on new instrumentation and accelerates the transfer and standardisation of methods across laboratories.
The Agilent 5975 Inert MSD is the next generation of the 5973 Inert MSD, a benchtop GC/MS.
Using the Agilent 5975, researchers can download new application solutions from Agilent's website and import them directly into the instrument, a concept called eMethods.
With eMethods, analysts can also transfer their existing 5973 series MSD methods to the new 5975 inert MSD with a simple software upgrade.
"EMethods allows researchers to tap into Agilent's wealth of application knowledge in a new and efficient way, and it unlocks the power of their own customised applications," said James Yano, GC/MS marketing manager of Agilent's Chemical Analysis Solutions unit.
"By providing a quicker, more productive and error-free process for importing and sharing applications, eMethods maximises GC/MS productivity".
The Agilent 5975 Inert MSD has a redesigned hyperbolic mass analyser with a higher mass range capability, providing quality data for higher mass applications such as environmental detection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of chemicals used as flame retardants.
It also includes a new vacuum system that pumps hydrogen and helium carrier gas more efficiently.
With a new flow-control system that automatically adjusts reagent gas flow and allows automated tuning of the ion source, the Agilent 5975 makes chemical ionisation as routine as electron impact ionisation, while improving overall sensitivity.
The system also has a new acquisition mode that allows users to obtain synchronous SIM (selected ion monitoring) data and full-scan data with no loss in sensitivity.
When combined with Agilent's Deconvolution Reporting software and industry-specific compound databases, this powerful new feature yields a very efficient solution for rapid identification of unknown compounds, says the company.
"The Agilent 5975 Inert MSD demonstrates Agilent's ongoing commitment to our GC/MS customers," said Chris Toney, GC/MS general manager of Agilent's Chemical Analysis Solutions unit.
"The significant improvements of this system are built on our history of providing researchers with instruments of the highest quality and reliability, which has made Agilent the world leader in benchtop GC/MS".
In Europe, 6-21 June 2005, a MS seminar tour introducing the 5975 will cover 14 cities enabling customers to discover the benefits of this newest GC/MS, see the product live, and discuss directly with technical experts.
Further details are available from local Agilent representatives.
The Agilent 5975 Inert MSD is expected to be available this month (June 2005).
