“…Using a mass spectrometer for antibacterial compound detection offers many advantages, such as independence from a chromophor and fluorophor, the possibility of structural information, lower detection limits, and easier separation of co-eluting peaks (26). Although the degradation products of TCs and the presence of epimers of OTC, TC, and CTC was proven, there are still many HPLC-based methods suitable for determination of parent compounds only (3,9,25,28,31). For screening purposes, the determination of TCs with their degradation products does not require additional confirmatory methods, usually based on liquid chromatography -tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS); however, the quantitative analysis of TCs should also include TC epimers.…”