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c/hplc·posted 8 months ago by u/ferran_krastev

[Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on LC-MS

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method development. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/dosinglogs is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort method development out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 24 months. My eGFR was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/fatima_yildiz234 points·7 months ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/hplc_hobbyistMOD125 points·7 months ago·edited

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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[removed]59 points·7 months ago

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u/lina_novak80 points·7 months ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/downvote_magnet18 points·7 months ago

area% and mass% are not the same and this whole post conflates them

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u/ferran_krastevOP32 points·7 months ago

Strongly agree. Largest single impurity tells a different story than total purity.

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u/dead_space_doug0 points·7 months ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is purity. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/georgi_tamm0 points·7 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa1 point·7 months ago·edited

the detector wavelength matters more than people think

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u/freya_baptista1 point·7 months ago·edited

area% and mass% are not the same and this whole post conflates them

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u/marisol_frisk1 point·7 months ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/ferran_krastevOP1 point·7 months ago

The VendorInvestigate result being close to my own HPLC is the signal, not the absolute number. Both are right.

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u/aksel_kjaer126 points·7 months ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/first_hundred-14 points·7 months ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/mateusz_mensah1 point·7 months ago

Did they post the raw trace or just the summary?

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u/isabela_nilsen1 point·7 months ago

the detector wavelength matters more than people think

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u/endotoxin_elliemicro1 point·7 months ago·edited

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/alcohol_aversion1 point·7 months ago

Detection wavelength? chromatogram and that changes at different wavelengths.

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u/dizzy_on_standing53 points·7 months ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

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u/andres_restrepo19 points·7 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/amara_haddad61 points·7 months ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/careful_gradient15 points·7 months ago

Slight fix: the number was 94.2, not 95.1. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/honest_syringe_202564 points·7 months ago

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/ferran_krastevOP27 points·7 months ago

The related substances profile is way more interesting than the main peak %. A 98% with 10 peaks is different from a 98% that is one 24% impurity.

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u/naomi_antonsen17 points·7 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/sig_figs_sammod · analytical33 points·7 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/hedda_ekstrom18 points·7 months ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/clara_danquah14 points·7 months ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/runa_cabrera30 points·7 months ago

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/step_count_stan42 points·7 months ago

Small correction: the trial was 15 weeks, not 24. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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