Re: Dry MeOH for ESI-MS

Rod Savidge (savidge@unb.ca)
Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:00:37 -0700

How about treating the preparation with 2,2-dimethoxypropane to scavenge
residual water?

Rod

At 02:37 PM 23/08/1999 EDT, Gary Valaskovic wrote:
>ABRFer's
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>I am looking for a dessicant to remove residual (trace) water from methanol.
>Ideally the process needs to be (ESI) LC-MS compatible, that is I do not
>want to add additional background signal. (I need to make the methanol as
>dry as possible.) If anyone has some good suggestions/experience on a
>particular choice of dessicant please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
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>Gary
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