PolyTools™ 1.0 is designed for the rapid determination of monomer units and end groups of oligomeric resolved polymer mass spectra. Characteristic values of the polymer, like weight average molecular weight (MW), number average molecular weight (MN), polydispersity and degree of polymerization are automatically calculated from the mass spectra.

PolyTools uses already processed data from Bruker Daltonics software packages like flexAnalysis, XTOF or other sources. Calculations are based on the signal intensities or signal areas including all isotopes. New stick spectra calculated from the observed monomer unit and end groups are displayed together with the experimental spectrum and peaklist for comparison.

By processing MS/MS spectra, it is possible to evaluate fragmentation patterns of the polymer or determine single end groups of the investigated polymer.