Minor change in the structure major change in the mass spectrum in the example of an N-toluene-pyrrolidine derivative
MS2 and further MSn spectra of SAR cannot provide sufficient information for metabolite structure elucidation because the masses of fragments in MSn correspond only to separate moieties of SAR. Nevertheless almost the exact structure of a dehydrogenated compound - has a poor MS2 spectrum - could be determined by further fragmentation in an LTQ-Orbitrap instrument and using the MSn mass spectra of an impurity of SAR.
