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Wiley KnowItAll Mass Spec Training - Part 8. Tips for Drawing Structures and Structure Searches in ChemWindow

Fr, 1.12.2023
| Original article from: Mass Spec Interpretation Services/James Little
In the eighth part of Wiley KnowItAll Mass Spec Training we will look at Tips for Drawing Structures and Structure Searches in ChemWindow
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James Little: Wiley KnowItAll Mass Spec Training - Part 8. Tips for Drawing Structures and Structure Searches in ChemWindow

Wiley released a KnowItAll version with many new powerful electron ionization gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (EI GC-MS) capabilities. I have developed FREE training videos and associated handouts covering basic and advanced MS topics that will be helpful to the new user.

Also, a Quick Reference Guide. is available.

KnowItAll is a vendor neutral data processing solution for spectral analyses which will be very valuable in unknown identifications.

It processes IR, Raman, MS, NMR, and UV data employing a large number of file formats (>170) and a total of 2.5 million reference spectra.

  • ~264K IR
  • ~25K Raman
  • ~1.25M EI mass spec
  • ~894K NMR
  • ~30K UV

Highlights:

  • Deconvolution/very fast library searching of accurate/nominal mass GC-MS data
  • Easy manual processing of nominal and accurate mass GC-MS data
  • Fast EI searches of >1.2 million spectra in <0.5 seconds
  • Amazing adaptive search for unknown ID by extending usefulness of all libraries
  • Transfer structures and spectra between NIST search and KnowItAll
  • Easy structure drawing and structure searches
  • Conversion of NIST user libraries to Wiley format
  • Easy creation of libraries using links to MS interpreter and PubChem

In the eighth part we will look at:

Detailed Handouts including tables of content are available in the LabRulezGCMS library.

  • Make Chemistry/Add and Show Implicit Hydrogens
  • ChemWindow hotkeys for elements and groups
  • Add elements not defined by hotkeys
  • Exact Match and Similarity Tanimoto search
  • Conclusions

Future parts will focus on:

-Part 6. MS Expert: Deconvolution of Mixtures with Library Search

  • Part 7. Interchange of Spectra Between KnowItAll and NIST Search
  • Part 9. Structure Interchange Between KnowItAll and NIST plus MS Interpreter
  • Part 10. Converting NIST Libraries to Wiley Format
  • Part 11. Making a User Library Using NIST MS Interpreter and PubChem
  • Part 12. Real World Example with IR and MS Combined searches
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