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The new, off line powerful combination of TLC with its simplicity, tan
dem mass spectrometry (MS-MS) with its specificity, and digital autora
diography (DAR) with its high sensitivity and suitability for quantita
tion was used as a fast screening method for separation and structure
identification of metabolites of deramciclane (a new anxiolytic compou
nd). The preferred ionisation technique for mass spectrometry (MS) whe
n combined with TLC is fast-atom bombardment (FAB).