Thermo TSQ Altis Plus 

The Altis Plus is a high-performance triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for SRM and analysing a variety of polar and non-polar compounds.
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Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility

Description

The Altis Plus is a high-performance triple stage quadrupole mass spectrometer and is used predominately for selected reaction monitoring (SRM) experiments. It includes a syringe pump, a divert/inject valve, an atmospheric pressure ionisation (API) source, and the Xcalibur™ data system.

The mass spectrometer can be operated in electrospray ionisation (ESI), atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation (APCI) and Atmospheric Pressure Photo ionisation (APPI) modes. Like ESI, APCI and APPI are soft ionization techniques.

With ESI, the Altis Plus can quantitively analyse hundreds of compounds within a single UPLC run and is especially useful for quantitative analysis of polar compounds, which include biological analytes, pharmaceuticals and their metabolites. APCI provides molecular weight information for compounds of low polarity that are somewhat volatile. APCI is typically used to analyse small molecules with molecular weights up to about 1000 amu.

Specifications

    • Maximum Pressure: Up to 1500 bar (21,750 psi)
    • Flow Range: 1 nL/min to 100 μL/min
    • Mass Range: 2 to 2010 m/z
    • Resolving Power: High-resolution selected-reaction monitoring (H-SRM) with 0.2 Da FWHM
    • Scan Speed: Ultrafast selected-reaction monitoring (SRM) with acquisition speeds up to 600 SRM transitions per second

Applications

  • Small molecule analysis
  • Metabolite profiling
  • Lipid measurements

Instrument location

Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility

Room 401, Level 4 North West
Wallace Wurth Building (C27)
UNSW Sydney, NSW 2033

Phone: 02 9385 1717
Email: 
bmsf@unsw.edu.au

Room 2012, Level 2 South
Biosciences Precinct (E26)
UNSW Sydney, NSW 2033

Phone: 02 9385 1717
Email: 
bmsf@unsw.edu.au

Ms Sonia Bustamante

Senior Technical Officer
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    02 9385 1613
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    s.bustamante@unsw.edu.au

Dr Russell Pickford

Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader
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    02 9385 2952
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    410 761 718
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    r.pickford@unsw.edu.au

Dr Andrew Jenner

Research Fellow
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    02 9385 7649
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    andrew.jenner@unsw.edu.au

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