A comprehensive study for a sensitivity optimization in MCE with mass spectrometric detection is presented. As a text mixture, we chose a mixture of the cardiac drugs propranolol, bisoprolol, lidocaine, procaine and studied the effect of different chip layouts and experimental parameters with the aim of achieving both high sensitivity in MS detection and adequate chip electrophoretic separation. An important aspect was a comparison of microfluidic layouts containing various sheath-flow channels with that avoiding sheath-flow junctions on-chip. We utilized glass chips with monolithically integrated nanospray emitter tips coupled dead volume-free to an IT mass spectrometer running in fragmentation mode (MS(n) ). With this setup, detection limits down to 0.6 ng/mL for the model compound propranolol were achieved.
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