Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris GC 240 mass spectrometer

Thermo Fisher Scientific has released a gas chromatography (GC) high-resolution mass spectrometer (MS) with high mass resolving power, sensitivity and wide dynamic range. With the latest system architecture and instrument control software, the system provides simple yet powerful data acquisition capabilities for demanding analytical challenges.

The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap Exploris GC 240 MS has a resolving power of 240,000. By delivering both quantitative and qualitative information from a single injection, the system enables precise and comprehensive compound identification, enabling researchers to make discoveries quickly and confidently.

The MS provides the flexibility to tackle a diverse range of analytical challenges, from identifying unknown contaminants and extractables and leachables, to applied quantification and metabolomics. It offers the capability of MS/MS for compound structural information and both electron and chemical ionisation without system venting to speed up time to result.

A compact platform with a small footprint, the product provides analytical dynamic range across six orders, for quantitation and detection of chemical components at trace and high concentrations. It features a standardised set-up and is easy to use for those with varied levels of technical experience.

The system includes informatics solutions for targeted quantitation and profiling, such as the Thermo Scientific Chromeleon Chromatography Data System (CDS) software, which enables seamless data acquisition to reporting in targeted analysis. For profiling and discovery, the Thermo Scientific Compound Discoverer 3.2 software enables researchers to discover sample differences, perform spectral matching and make proposed identifications of unknown compounds.

Commercially available spectral libraries are available for spectral matching, plus the use of application-specific, high-resolution, accurate-mass libraries in the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap GC-MS contaminants library and the Thermo Scientific Orbitrap GC-MS HRAM metabolomics library.