Separation of food-related biogenic amines by ion-interaction reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography. Tyramine, histamine, 2-phenylethylamine, tryptamine and precursor aminoacids. Application to red wine

A simple liquid chromatographic method based on intramolecular excimer-forming derivatization and fluorescence detection for the determination of tyrosine and tyramine in urine

A liquid chromatographic (LC) method for sensitive and selective fluorometric determination of p-hydroxyphenylethylamino group containing compounds is described. This method is based on an intramolecular excimer-forming fluorescence derivatization with a pyrene reagent, 4-(1-pyrene)butanoyl chloride, followed by reversed-phase LC. The analytes, containing an amino moiety and a phenolic hydroxyl moiety in a molecule, were converted to the corresponding dipyrene-labeled derivatives by one-step derivatization. The dipyrene-labeled derivatives afforded intramolecular excimer fluorescence (440-540 nm), which can clearly be discriminated from the normal fluorescence (360-420 nm) emitted from reagent blanks. The derivatives of tyrosine and tyramine could be separated by reversed-phase LC on ODS column under conditions of isocratic elution. The detection limits (signal-to-noise ratio = 3) for tyrosine and tyramine were 4.5 and 2.6 fmol per 20 microL injection, which corresponded to analyte concentrations of 0.9 and 0.5 nM, respectively.

Separation of reduced and oxidized glutathione in a pharmaceutical preparation by ion-interaction reversed-phase HPLC

A new method is presented for the simultaneous determination of reduced and oxidized glutathione by ion-interaction reversed-phase HPLC with octylamine orthophosphate as the interaction reagent, 5-microns Spherisorb ODS-2 as the stationary phase and UV detection at 230 nm. Lower limits of detection of 2.50 micrograms ml-1 have been achieved for both the oxidized and the reduced forms. The method has been applied in the analysis of a commercial pharmaceutical preparation.