Chromatography Forum

Hi all,

I'm a student working on an LC-MS project and am having great difficulty with Agilent MassHunter Qualitative Analysis. More specifically, I am trying to find an slick way to export my values of interest to an .csv or Excel format.

One way that I've had success with so far is by generating a "Integration Peak List" and exporting that. However, for some reason, the Integration Peak List is lacking in mass spec information, and instead only gives me information about my chromatagram peaks. It's a great start, but I really would like some m/z information to go along with it.

There is a column in the Integration Peak List called "base peak." According to the help documentation, this should be giving me "the m/z of the highest abundance point in the mass spectrum that was acquired closest to the retention time of the peak." This sounds like EXACTLY what I need, but the column is blank? Any ideas on why that might be?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

As you mentioned, you are using Qualitative analysis - and the results you generate are going to have limited parameters displayed.
I would advice that you use the quantitative tool of mass hunter, even in the method development stage where your runs have different retention times. You just need to do the setting of the retention time such that it is wide enough to encompass the actual RTs of your runs, then integrate and you can add all those other parameters that you are interested in > export or generate report.

God luck