Essential oils analysis. II. Mass spectra identification of terpene and phenylpropane derivatives
Mass spectra are widely used in order to try the identification of the peaks resulted from a chromatographic separation. The most common approach to solve the problem for unknowns on whom very little other structural information is available is the use of a retrieval algorithm and a reference mass spectra database. The wide variety of mass spectra recorded with different instruments under various experimental conditions can led to erroneous results.
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