Introduction to the Layout of Compounds View in MassHunter Qualitative Analysis Software

Created by Xu Li-hua over 1 year ago | Last modified by Carlos Vargas over 1 year ago

This Information Applies To: Agilent MassHunter Qualitative Analysis Software version 10.0

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Introduction to MassHunter Qualitative Analysis for Agilent GC/MS – Compound View.

Steps to follow

Note: Use the demonstration data files evaldemo.d, alkdemo.d, barbdemo.d at C:\GCMS\msdemo.

The Compounds View is used when you want to find and identify compounds. This view allows you to:

Provides a compound-centric view of the data files.
View compound data simultaneously in different windows.
Change the selected compound in the Compound List.
Switch between data files in the Sample Table.
Use the Compound Mining algorithms.
Apply multi-step workflows for routine analysis tasks.

The Compounds View default layout has a Menu Bar, a Toolbar, and a Main Window with graphs and tables (see Figure 1).

Figure 1. Compound view
1 - Compound View icon 2 - Menu bar 3 - Toolbar 4 - The main window of Sample Chromatogram Results

Sample Table: Table of sample-level information.

Compound List: A list of compounds found in the current sample selected in the Sample Table.

Compound Identification Results: Details of the identification of the current compound selected in the Compound List.

Sample Chromatogram Results: Interactive chromatogram results for the sample in the Sample Table.

Compound Chromatogram Results: The chromatogram for the current compound selected in the Compound List.

Compound MS Spectrum Results: Display of MS spectra for the current compound selected in the Compound List.

The Compound View allows you to move individual windows to different positions, change the size of a window, tab them with other windows, and float the window outside of the main window. These changes can be saved as a new layout file (Configuration > Windows Layout > Save Layout…).

You can restore the default layout (Configuration > Window Layouts > Load Default Layout).