Figure 3.
Comparison of fragmentation spectra between A) acetylfentanyl and its reference standard within the library, and B) 4’-methyl acetylfentanyl and its isomer fentanyl. Acetylfentanyl has a close match with its reference standard giving a high match score of 99.12. Despite fentanyl and 4’-methyl acetylfentanyl being isomers, they have different fragmentation patterns due to the differing location of a methyl group, resulting in a poor match score (25.12) of 4’-methyl acetylfentanyl relative to the fentanyl.