imidazole nitrate esi

[martinamarie]

Hi there, if I have positive esi of imidazole nitrate, is it possible to determine structure using only ms without nmr or ir.

Thanks
Tina.

[Ken]

Hi Tina.

If you have only ESI, my opinion is that you can based your 'structure determination from your samples' versus a standard.

Get the fragmentation MS/MS data; and compared them. Most of the MS software nowadays can give you a mass fragmentation pattern matching ie attaching a structure of your target compound and the software will match the corresponding m/z fragments to the structure of your compounds.

This is one of the possibilty for you to 'confirm your compound structure' - otherwise, IR and NMR data is much needed especially NMR data for structure elucidation works ~

Hope this helps ~