The identification of phosphocholine and phosphoethanolamine lipids by MALDI TOF/TOF, including characterisation of the headgroup and delineation of the acyl chain at each position of the glycerol backbone, has been explored using lipids representative of each type. The relative intensities of fragments involving the neutral loss of one or other of the acyl chains from ion adducts of 1-palmitoy...

This work further improves the pseudo-transient approach for Poisson Boltzmann equation (PBE) in electrostatic analysis of solvated biomolecules. The numerical solution nonlinear PBE is known to involve many difficulties, such as exponential term, strong singularity by source terms, and complex dielectric interface. Recently, a pseudo-time ghost-fluid method (GFM) has been developed [S. Ahmed U...

Abstract Different types of transport in topological semimetals probe the signatures their band topology directly. Using Landuer-Buttiker formalism, we study through a rectangular potential barrier created across junction between two multi-Weyl (MSMs). In contrast to regular Weyl semimetal with charge J = 1, MSMs are allowed have monopole charges > 1. Consequently, structures show highly ani...

Organic compounds designed to serve as stable dendrimer cores were developed. A series of aminosugar and amino polyol containing G0 dendrimers were synthesized. The reaction mixture composition was checked by MALDI TOF mass spectrometry, while that of purified products - by 1H and 13C NMR combined with 2D NMR spectroscopy as well as MALDI TOF MSMS mass spectra. Mass spectrometric fragmentation ...

The present study was designed to systematically investigate the chemical profile differences between crude Anemarrhenae rhizoma (CAR) and salt-processed Anemarrhenae rhizoma (SAR). Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS), coupled with multivariate statistical analysis was used for the discrimination of chemical profiles and the i...

A sensitive and reliable method was developed and validated for the determination of unsaturated bile alcohols in sea lamprey tissues using liquid-liquid extraction and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS). The liver, kidney, and intestine samples were extracted with acetonitrile and defatted by n-hexane. Gradient UHPLC separation was performed usi...

Ultra-high pressure liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) analysis of the organic extract obtained from the Mediterranean zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae yielded to the identification of five new parazoanthines F-J. The structures were fully determined by comparison of fragmentation patterns with those of previously isolated parazoathines and MS/MS spe...