“…Compounds containing a substituted aromatic ring, ubiquitous in therapeutic drugs and their drug metabolites, form a particular challenge to MS, as the positional isomers (ortho, meta, para) that result from a different substitution pattern often have very similar retention times and MS/MS fragmentation spectra. Moreover, chromatographic retention times and MS/MS spectra are merely used as empirical parameters, [4][5][6][7] which are difficult to predict in silico and thus require libraries derived from physical standards. Synthesis of reference standards is a very time-consuming step in analytical workflows, and may not be possible at all for some compounds.…”