Two flavonol glycoside isomers of Icariside I and Caohuoside C were differentiated by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (ESI-MSn) method. In the negative ion mode, the two compounds with different glycosyl moieties showed the same ESI-MS spectrum, but obvious different MS2 spectra and thus they can be distinguished rapidly, accurately and easily by ESI-MS.
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