Advances in the Use of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS): Instrumentation Developments and Applications

Achille Cappiello, Istituto di Scienze Chimiche, Universitá degli Studi di Urbino, Urbino, Italy Pierangela Palma,Istituto di Scienze Chimiche, Universitá degli Studi di Urbino, Urbino, Italy

1. Electron Ionization LC-MS: What is it and why use it? 2. Analysis of psychoactive substances, their metabolites and transformation products in environmental samples using LC-MS 3. New trends in chiral HPLC-MS 4. Comprehensive techniques in LC-MS applications 5. Tools for Unknown identification: Accurate Mass Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing fluids 6. Advanced LC-MS methods for N-glycan characterization 7. Condensed Phase Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry – Continuous, Direct and Online Measurements in Complex Samples 8. Enhancing LC-MS biological analyses using differential mobility techniques (DMS and FAIMS) 9. ESI and APCI LC-MS/MS in model investigations on the absorption and transformation of organic xenobiotics by poplar plants (Populus Alba) 10. LC-MS of Emerging Disinfection By-Products 11. The role of tandem mass spectrometry in clinical chemistry: quantification steroid hormone and Vitamin D 12. Some applications of LC-MS in the biomedical field: new analytical methodologies and instrument approaches 13. A step up LC-MS/MS for proteomics