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Forsberg J, Rasmussen CT, van den Berg FWJ, Engelsen SB, Aru V. Fermentation Analytical Technology (FAT): Monitoring industrial E. coli fermentations using absolute quantitative 1H NMR spectroscopy. Anal Chim Acta 2024; 1311:342722. [PMID: 38816156 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2024.342722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2024] [Revised: 05/09/2024] [Accepted: 05/12/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024]
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BACKGROUND To perform fast, reproducible, and absolute quantitative measurements in an automated manner has become of paramount importance when monitoring industrial processes, including fermentations. Due to its numerous advantages - including its inherent quantitative nature - Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1H NMR) spectroscopy provides an ideal tool for the time-resolved monitoring of fermentations. However, analytical conditions, including non-automated sample preparation and long relaxation times (T1) of some metabolites, can significantly lengthen the experimental time and make implementation in an industrial set up unfeasible. RESULTS We present a high throughput method based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and 1H NMR, which lays the foundation for what we call Fermentation Analytical Technology (FAT). Our method was developed for the accurate absolute quantification of metabolites produced during Escherichia coli industrial fermentations. The method includes: (1) a stopped flow system for non-invasive sample collection followed by sample quenching, (2) automatic robot-assisted sample preparation, (3) fast 1H NMR measurements, (4) metabolites quantification using multivariate curve resolution (MCR), and (5) metabolites absolute quantitation using a novel correction factor (k) to compensate for the short recycle delay (D1) employed in the 1H NMR measurements. The quantification performance was tested using two sample types: buffer solutions of chemical standards and real fermentation samples. Five metabolites - glucose, acetate, alanine, phenylalanine and betaine - were quantified. Absolute quantitation ranged between 0.64 and 3.40 mM in pure buffer, and 0.71-7.76 mM in real samples. SIGNIFICANCE The proposed method is generic and can be straight forward implemented to other types of fermentations, such as lactic acid, ethanol and acetic acid fermentations. It provides a high throughput automated solution for monitoring fermentation processes and for quality control through absolute quantification of key metabolites in fermentation broth. It can be easily implemented in an at-line industrial setting, facilitating the optimization of the manufacturing process towards higher yields and more efficient and sustainable use of resources.
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- Jakob Forsberg
- Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark; Novo Nordisk A/S, Hagedornsvej 1, 2820, Gentofte, Denmark.
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- Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 26, 1958, Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Franz AH, Samoshina NM, Samoshin VV. A convenient method for the relative and absolute quantification of lipid components in liposomes by 1H- and 31P NMR-spectroscopy. Chem Phys Lipids 2024; 261:105395. [PMID: 38615786 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2024.105395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Revised: 03/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Liposomes are promising delivery systems for pharmaceutical applications and have been used in medicine in the recent past. Preparation of liposomes requires reliable characterization and quantification of the phospholipid components for which the traditional cumbersome molybdate method is used frequently. The objective was to improve relative and absolute quantification of lipid components from liposomes. METHODS A reliable method for quantification of lipid composition in liposome formulations in the 1-10 μmol range with 1H- and 31P NMR spectroscopy at 600 MHz has been developed. The method is based on three crystalline small-molecule standards (Ph3PO4, (Tol)3PO4, and Ph3PO) in CDCl3. RESULTS Excellent calibration linearity and chemical stability of the standards was observed. The method was tested in blind fashion on liposomes containing POPC, PEG-ceramide and a pH-sensitive trans-aminocyclohexanol-based amphiphile (TACH).1 Relative quantification (percentage of components) as well as determination of absolute lipid amount was possible with excellent reproducibility with an average error of 5%. Quantification (triplicate) was accomplished in 15 min based on 1H NMR and in 1 h based on 31P NMR. Very little change in mixture composition was observed over multiple preparative steps. CONCLUSION Liposome preparations containing POPC, POPE, DOPC, DPPC, TACH, and PEG-ceramide can be reliably characterized and quantified by 1H NMR and 31P NMR spectroscopy at 600 MHz in the μmol range.
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- Andreas H Franz
- Department of Chemistry, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, College of the Pacific, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95211, USA
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Maccelli A, Borioni A, Aureli F, Gaudiano MC, Manna L, Raimondo M. A screening method for the quantitative determination of selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) in capsules by high resolution 19F- and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2024; 16:2135-2146. [PMID: 38517236 DOI: 10.1039/d4ay00188e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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A new method for rapid determination of the content of selective androgenic receptor modulators (SARMs) andarine, cardarine, ligandrol, ostarine and S-23 in capsules by 1H- and 19F-high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was described and validated. Specificity, linearity, accuracy, precision, detection and quantification limits were considered as validation parameters. Full 1H-, 13C- and 19F-NMR structural assignment of the SARMs is provided as a tool for self-standing identification without a reference standard. Amounts of 7-15 mg of SARMs/capsule were detected in different products with an intermediate precision of 0.8-1.7% in 4 to 20 minutes of analysis time. The validation results and rapidity of analysis confirm the applicability of the method for large-scale screening. The statistical analysis of the results from 19F- and 1H-quantitative NMR showed that both approaches were equally effective, thus expanding the potential use of the methodology to non-fluorinated SARMs. At present, no SARM has been approved for human consumption; however, SARMs are actually used by bodybuilders and recreational athletes, who purchase them even though the risk-benefit ratio of these molecules has not been definitively established.
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- Alessandro Maccelli
- Chemical Medicines Unit, National Centre for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
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- Chemical Medicines Unit, National Centre for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
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- Chemical Medicines Unit, National Centre for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
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- Chemical Medicines Unit, National Centre for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
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- Chemical Medicines Unit, National Centre for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
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- Chemical Medicines Unit, National Centre for the Control and Evaluation of Medicines, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy.
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Mildner M, Hanio S, Endres S, Scheller L, Engel B, Castañar L, Meinel L, Pöppler AC. In situ setup for screening of drug permeation by NMR spectroscopy. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2024; 16:1468-1472. [PMID: 38226670 DOI: 10.1039/d3ay01995k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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There are various commercially available setups for studying drug permeation, which differ in cost and manual labor. We explore an artificial membrane in an NMR tube to assess drug permeation with automated measurements. NMR-based concentrations were validated with HPLC and compared to a conventional setup. Setup-specific challenges and workarounds as well as future setup-designs for this and other applications are discussed.
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- Malte Mildner
- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany.
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany.
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Science, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany.
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Scott JS, Schneider JE, Tewelde EG, Gardner JG, Anferov SW, Filatov AS, Anderson JS. Combining Donor Strength and Oxidative Stability in Scorpionates: A Strongly Donating Fluorinated Mesoionic Tris(imidazol-5-ylidene)borate Ligand. Inorg Chem 2023; 62:21224-21232. [PMID: 38051936 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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Strongly donating scorpionate ligands support the study of high-valent transition metal chemistry; however, their use is frequently limited by oxidative degradation. To address this concern, we report the synthesis of a tris(imidazol-5-ylidene)borate ligand featuring trifluoromethyl groups surrounding its coordination pocket. This ligand represents the first example of a chelating poly(imidazol-5-ylidene) mesoionic carbene ligand, a scaffold that is expected to be extremely donating. The {NiNO}10 complex of this ligand, as well as that of a previously reported strongly donating tris(imidazol-2-ylidene)borate, has been synthesized and characterized. This new ligand's strong donor properties, as measured by the υNO of its {NiNO}10 complex and natural bonding orbital second-order perturbative energy analysis, are at par with those of the well-studied alkyl-substituted tris(imidazol-2-ylidene)borates, which are known to effectively stabilize high-valent intermediates. The good donor properties of this ligand, despite the electron-withdrawing trifluoromethyl substituents, arise from the strongly donating imidazol-5-ylidene mesoionic carbene arms. These donor properties, when combined with the robustness of trifluoromethyl groups toward oxidative decomposition, suggest this ligand scaffold will be a useful platform in the study of oxidizing high-valent transition-metal species.
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- Joseph S Scott
- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Novikova D, Al Mustafa A, Grigoreva T, Vorona S, Selivanov S, Tribulovich V. NMR-Verified Dearomatization of 5,7-Substituted Pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines. Molecules 2023; 28:6584. [PMID: 37764360 PMCID: PMC10535613 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28186584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 09/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/05/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Tetrahydropyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine (THPP) is an attractive scaffold for designing biologically active compounds. The most obvious way to obtain such compounds is to reduce pyrazolopyrimidines with complex hydrides, because the pyrimidine ring is reduced in the preference over the pyrazole ring. The presence of substituents at positions five and seven of pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines complicates the set of reaction products but makes it more attractive for medicinal chemistry because four possible stereoisomers can be formed during reduction. However, the formation of only syn-isomers has been described in the literature. This article is the first report on the formation of anti-configured isomers along with syn-isomers in the reduction of model 5,7-dimethylpyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine, which was confirmed by NMR. The bicyclic core in the syn-configuration was shown to be conformationally stable, which was used to estimate the long-range interproton distances using NOESY data. At the same time, long-range dipole-dipole interactions corresponding to a distance between protons of more than 6 Å were first registered and quantified. In turn, the bicyclic core in the trans-configuration represents a conformationally labile system. For these structures, an analysis of conformations observed in solutions was carried out. Our results indicate the significant potential of trans-configured tetrahydropyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidines for the development of active small molecules. While possessing structural lability due to the low energy of the conformational transition, they have the ability to adjust to the active site of the desired target.
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- Daria Novikova
- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russia; (A.A.M.); (T.G.); (S.V.)
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russia; (A.A.M.); (T.G.); (S.V.)
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russia; (A.A.M.); (T.G.); (S.V.)
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russia; (A.A.M.); (T.G.); (S.V.)
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- Laboratory of Biomolecular NMR, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia;
- Department of Organic Chemistry, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russia
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- Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg 190013, Russia; (A.A.M.); (T.G.); (S.V.)
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Woodman TJ, Lloyd MD. Analysis of enzyme reactions using NMR techniques: A case study with α-methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR). Methods Enzymol 2023; 690:159-209. [PMID: 37858529 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2023.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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α-Methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR; P504S) catalyzes the conversion of R-2-methylacyl-CoA esters into their corresponding S-2-methylacyl-CoA epimers enabling their degradation by β-oxidation. The enzyme also catalyzes the key epimerization reaction in the pharmacological activation pathway of ibuprofen and related drugs. AMACR protein levels and enzymatic activity are increased in prostate cancer, and the enzyme is a recognized drug target. Key to the development of novel treatments based on AMACR inhibition is the development of functional assays. Synthesis of substrates and purification of recombinant human AMACR are described. Incubation of R- or S-2-methylacyl-CoA esters with AMACR in vitro resulted in formation of epimers (at a near 1-1 ratio at equilibrium) via removal of their α-protons to form an enolate intermediate followed by reprotonation. Conversion can be conveniently followed by incubation in buffer containing 2H2O followed by 1H NMR analysis to monitor conversion of the α-methyl doublet to a single peak upon deuterium incorporation. Incubation of 2-methylacyl-CoA esters containing leaving groups results in an elimination reaction, which was also characterized by 1H NMR. The synthesis of substrates, including a double labeled substrate for mechanistic studies, and subsequent analysis is also described.
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- Timothy J Woodman
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom.
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Preikschas P, Martín AJ, Yeo BS, Pérez-Ramírez J. NMR-based quantification of liquid products in CO 2 electroreduction on phosphate-derived nickel catalysts. Commun Chem 2023; 6:147. [PMID: 37430001 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-023-00948-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/12/2023] Open
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Recently discovered phosphate-derived Ni catalysts have opened a new pathway towards multicarbon products via CO2 electroreduction. However, understanding the influence of basic parameters such as electrode potential, pH, and buffer capacity is needed for optimized C3+ product formation. To this end, rigorous catalyst evaluation and sensitive analytical tools are required to identify potential new products and minimize increasing quantification errors linked to long-chain carbon compounds. Herein, we contribute to enhance testing accuracy by presenting sensitive 1H NMR spectroscopy protocols for liquid product assessment featuring optimized water suppression and reduced experiment time. When combined with an automated NMR data processing routine, samples containing up to 12 products can be quantified within 15 min with low quantification limits equivalent to Faradaic efficiencies of 0.1%. These developments disclosed performance trends in carbon product formation and the detection of four hitherto unreported compounds: acetate, ethylene glycol, hydroxyacetone, and i-propanol.
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- Phil Preikschas
- Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117543, Singapore
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- Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Nazarski RB. On the Use of Deuterated Organic Solvents without TMS to Report 1H/ 13C NMR Spectral Data of Organic Compounds: Current State of the Method, Its Pitfalls and Benefits, and Related Issues. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28114369. [PMID: 37298845 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28114369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
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The quite popular, simple but imperfect method of referencing NMR spectra to residual 1H and 13C signals of TMS-free deuterated organic solvents (referred to as Method A) is critically discussed for six commonly used NMR solvents with respect to their δH and δC values that exist in the literature. Taking into account the most reliable data, it was possible to recommend 'best' δX values for such secondary internal standards. The position of these reference points on the δ scale strongly depends on the concentration and type of analyte under study and the solvent medium used. For some solvents, chemically induced shifts (CISs) of residual 1H lines were considered, also taking into account the formation of 1:1 molecular complexes (for CDCl3). Typical potential errors that can occur as a result of improper application of Method A are considered in detail. An overview of all found δX values adopted by users of this method revealed a discrepancy of up to 1.9 ppm in δC reported for CDCl3, most likely caused by the CIS mentioned above. The drawbacks of Method A are discussed in relation to the classical use of an internal standard (Method B), two 'instrumental' schemes in which Method A is often implicitly applied, that is, the default Method C using 2H lock frequencies and Method D based on Ξ values, recommended by the IUPAC but only occasionally used for 1H/13C spectra, and external referencing (Method E). Analysis of current needs and opportunities for NMR spectrometers led to the conclusion that, for the most accurate application of Method A, it is necessary to (a) use dilute solutions in a single NMR solvent and (b) to report δX data applied for the reference 1H/13C signals to the nearest 0.001/0.01 ppm to ensure the precise characterization of new synthesized or isolated organic systems, especially those with complex or unexpected structures. However, the use of TMS in Method B is strongly recommended in all such cases.
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- Ryszard B Nazarski
- Theoretical and Structural Chemistry Group, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Lodz, 163/165 Pomorska, 90-236 Łódź, Poland
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Tang Y, Han Z, Zhang H, Che L, Liao G, Peng J, Lin Y, Wang Y. Characterization of Calculus bovis by principal component analysis assisted qHNMR profiling to distinguish nefarious frauds. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2023; 228:115320. [PMID: 36871364 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2023.115320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023]
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A new approach is developed for the reliable classification of Calculus bovis along with the identification of willfully contaminated C. bovis species and the quantification of unclaimed adulterants. Guided by a principal component analysis, NMR data mining achieved a near-holistic chemical characterization of three types of authenticated C. bovis, including natural C. bovis (NCB), in vitro cultured C. bovis (Ivt-CCB), and artificial C. bovis (ACB). In addition, species-specific markers used for quality evaluation and species classification were confirmed. That is, the content of taurine in NCB is near negligible, while choline and hyodeoxycholic acid are characteristic for identifying Ivt-CCB and ACB, respectively. Besides, the peak shapes and chemical shifts of H2-25 of glycocholic acid could assist in the recognition of the origins of C. bovis. Based on these discoveries, a set of commercial NCB samples, macroscopically identified as problematic species, was examined with deliberately added sugars and outliers discovered. Absolute quantification of the identified sugars was realized by qHNMR using a single, nonidentical internal calibrant (IC). This study represents the first systematic study of C. bovis metabolomics via an NMR-driven methodology, which advances the toolbox for quality control of TCM and provides a more definitive reference point for future chemical and biological studies of C. bovis as a valuable materia medica.
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- Yu Tang
- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Innovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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- Xiamen Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361116, China.
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- Xiamen Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361116, China.
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- College of Pharmacy, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou 350122, China.
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- College of Pharmacy, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou 350122, China.
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- Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China; Innovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
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Huang T, Zhang W, Wang J, Wan K, Sun X, Wu B, Shi N, Su P, Yang Y. Coulometric method with titratable impurity analysis and mass balance method: convert acidimetric purity to chemical purity for SI-traceable highest standard of qNMR (potassium hydrogen phthalate), and verified by qNMR. Anal Bioanal Chem 2023; 415:1445-1454. [PMID: 36698046 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04532-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2022] [Revised: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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In this study, the coulometric method with titratable impurity analysis and the mass balance method were successfully applied in the quantification of the certified reference material of potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP) with accurate metrological traceability of chemical purity value (99.983% with an expanded uncertainty of 0.024%, k = 2). In contrast to the general coulometric titration method, the coulometric method with titratable impurity analysis enables the conversion of acidimetric purity to chemical purity: The acidimetric purity was determined by coulometric titration method, and then the impurities that may be titrated as principal components were found as far as possible using various methods and the result of deducting these impurities from the acidimetric purity can be considered as chemical purity. The mass balance method also accounted for all possible types of impurities as much as possible to improve the accuracy of the determined result. The accuracy and reliability of the purity results were subsequently verified by a two-step quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) method. This KHP certified reference material was the first hydrophilic internal standard of qNMR (applied in polar solvents) with an expanded uncertainty lower than 0.03%, which will become a major reference standard in the organic chemistry traceable calibration chain, especially when evaluating hydrophilic organic compounds to obtain purity values with very low uncertainty.
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- Ting Huang
- Division of Chemical Metrology and Analytical Science, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Chemical Metrology and Analytical Science, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Chemical Metrology and Analytical Science, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Chemical Metrology and Analytical Science, National Institute of Metrology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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Mehr SHM, Tang AW, Laing RR. Automated qualitative and quantitative analysis of complex forensic drug samples using 1 H NMR. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2023; 61:95-105. [PMID: 35246867 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Progress in high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrumentation has enabled fast and accurate acquisition of quantitative 1 H NMR (qNMR) data, but analyzing complex forensic drug samples in the presence of significant peak overlap remains challenging. This limitation has hampered the adoption of 1 H NMR in areas such as traditional medicine and law enforcement. We present the NMRquant algorithm, which can detect and quantitate compounds of interest within forensic mixed drug samples even when there is overlap between chemical shift regions. Our algorithm is robust against variations in chemical shift resulting from temperature, concentration, and inter-analyte interactions. We have integrated these desirable features into an automated workflow, enabling routine unattended proton qNMR analysis of forensic drug samples.
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- S Hessam M Mehr
- Drug Analysis Service, Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch, Health Canada, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Drug Analysis Service, Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch, Health Canada, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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- Drug Analysis Service, Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch, Health Canada, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Unsupervised Analysis of Small Molecule Mixtures by Wavelet-Based Super-Resolved NMR. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 28:molecules28020792. [PMID: 36677850 PMCID: PMC9866129 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28020792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Revised: 12/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Resolving small molecule mixtures by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been of great interest for a long time for its precision, reproducibility, and efficiency. However, spectral analyses for such mixtures are often highly challenging due to overlapping resonance lines and limited chemical shift windows. The existing experimental and theoretical methods to produce shift NMR spectra in dealing with the problem have limited applicability owing to sensitivity issues, inconsistency, and/or the requirement of prior knowledge. Recently, we resolved the problem by decoupling multiplet structures in NMR spectra by the wavelet packet transform (WPT) technique. In this work, we developed a scheme for deploying the method in generating highly resolved WPT NMR spectra and predicting the composition of the corresponding molecular mixtures from their 1H NMR spectra in an automated fashion. The four-step spectral analysis scheme consists of calculating the WPT spectrum, peak matching with a WPT shift NMR library, followed by two optimization steps in producing the predicted molecular composition of a mixture. The robustness of the method was tested on an augmented dataset of 1000 molecular mixtures, each containing 3 to 7 molecules. The method successfully predicted the constituent molecules with a median true positive rate of 1.0 against the varying compositions, while a median false positive rate of 0.04 was obtained. The approach can be scaled easily for much larger datasets.
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Head-to-Head Comparison of High-Performance Liquid Chromatography versus Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for the Quantitative Analysis of Carbohydrates in Yiqi Fumai Lyophilized Injection. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 28:molecules28020765. [PMID: 36677822 PMCID: PMC9860785 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28020765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Carbohydrate analysis can be used as a standard analysis for quality control of industries of plants, foods and pharmaceuticals. Quantitative 1H NMR spectroscopy (qNMR) is an excellent alternative to chromatography-based mixture analysis. However, the application of qNMR in sugar analysis has rarely been reported. In this study, the performance of qNMR in sugar analysis was investigated and compared with the results from HPLC analysis. A head-to-head comparison of qNMR (internal and external standard methods) versus HPLC (PMP pre-column derivatization HPLC, HPLC-RID and HPLC-ELSD) based on quantitative analysis of four carbohydrates (fructose, glucose, sucrose and maltose) in Yiqi Fumai lyophilized injection (YQFM) is presented. Both assays showed similar performance characteristics, including linearity range, accuracy, precision and recovery, and analysis times of less than 30 min/sample. After methodological validation, both qNMR and HPLC have good accuracy, precision and stability. Indeed, the qNMR method is simple, sensitive and rapid in quantifying the four sugars. By analysis of variance (ANOVA) for sugar content with HPLC and qNMR methods, we demonstrated that the two analytical methods had no significant difference and could be used interchangeably for the quantitative analysis of carbohydrates.
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one of the two major analytical platforms in the field of metabolomics, the other being mass spectrometry (MS). NMR is less sensitive than MS and hence it detects a relatively small number of metabolites. However, NMR exhibits numerous unique characteristics including its high reproducibility and non-destructive nature, its ability to identify unknown metabolites definitively, and its capabilities to obtain absolute concentrations of all detected metabolites, sometimes even without an internal standard. These characteristics outweigh the relatively low sensitivity and resolution of NMR in metabolomics applications. Since biological mixtures are highly complex, increased demand for new methods to improve detection, better identify unknown metabolites, and provide more accurate quantitation continues unabated. Technological and methodological advances to date have helped to improve the resolution and sensitivity and detection of a larger number of metabolite signals. Efforts focused on measuring unknown metabolite signals have resulted in the identification and quantitation of an expanded pool of metabolites including labile metabolites such as cellular redox coenzymes, energy coenzymes, and antioxidants. This chapter describes quantitative NMR methods in metabolomics with an emphasis on recent methodological developments, while highlighting the benefits and challenges of NMR-based metabolomics.
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- G A Nagana Gowda
- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Northwest Metabolomics Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Mitochondria and Metabolism Center, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
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NMR-Based Chromatography Readouts: Indispensable Tools to “Translate” Analytical Features into Molecular Structures. Cells 2022; 11:cells11213526. [DOI: 10.3390/cells11213526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Revised: 10/29/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Gaining structural information is a must to allow the unequivocal structural characterization of analytes from natural sources. In liquid state, NMR spectroscopy is almost the only possible alternative to HPLC-MS and hyphenating the effluent of an analyte separation device to the probe head of an NMR spectrometer has therefore been pursued for more than three decades. The purpose of this review article was to demonstrate that, while it is possible to use mass spectrometry and similar methods to differentiate, group, and often assign the differentiating variables to entities that can be recognized as single molecules, the structural characterization of these putative biomarkers usually requires the use of NMR spectroscopy.
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Parra-Naranjo A, Delgado-Montemayor C, Salazar-Aranda R, Castro-Ríos R, Saucedo AL, Waksman-Minsky N. Two Ways to Achieve the Same Goal-Two Validated Quantitative NMR Strategies for a Low-Abundance Natural Product in Standardized Extracts: The Case of Hepatodamianol in Turnera diffusa. MOLECULES (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 27:molecules27196593. [PMID: 36235131 PMCID: PMC9570796 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27196593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The quantification of low-abundance secondary metabolites in plant extracts is an analytical problem that can be addressed by different analytical platforms, the most common being those based on chromatographic methods coupled to a high-sensitivity detection system. However, in recent years nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become an analytical tool of primary choice for this type of problem because of its reliability, inherent simplicity in sample preparation, reduced analysis time, and low solvent consumption. The versatility of strategies based on quantitative NMR (qNMR), such as internal and external standards and electronic references, among others, and the need to develop validated analytical methods make it essential to compare procedures that must rigorously satisfy the analytical well-established acceptance criteria for method validation. In this work, two qNMR methods were developed for the quantification of hepatodamianol, a bioactive component of T. diffusa. The first method was based on a conventional external standard calibration, and the second one was based on the pulse length-based concentration determination (PULCON) method using the ERETIC2 module as a quantitation tool available in TopSpin software. The results show that both procedures allow the content of the analyte of interest in a complex matrix to be determined in a satisfactory way, under strict analytical criteria. In addition, ERETIC2 offers additional advantages such as a reduction in experimental time, reagent consumption, and waste generated.
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- Aída Parra-Naranjo
- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64460, Mexico
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- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64460, Mexico
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- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64460, Mexico
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- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64460, Mexico
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- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64460, Mexico
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Ciudad de México 03940, Mexico
- Correspondence: (A.L.S.); (N.W.-M.)
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- Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey 64460, Mexico
- Correspondence: (A.L.S.); (N.W.-M.)
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Wekre ME, Hellesen Brunvoll S, Jordheim M. Advancing quantification methods for polyphenols in brown seaweeds-applying a selective qNMR method compared with the TPC assay. PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS : PCA 2022; 33:1099-1110. [PMID: 35796295 PMCID: PMC9796469 DOI: 10.1002/pca.3162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Brown seaweeds are a sustainable biomass with a potential for various industrial applications. Polyphenols are an important contributor to this potential. OBJECTIVE The aim was total quantification of polyphenols in brown seaweeds from different tidal zones, using a selective 1 H quantitative NMR (qNMR) method, comparing the results with the colorimetric Folin-Ciocalteu total phenolic content (TPC) assay. METHOD qNMR was performed with integration of selected peaks in the aromatic region (7-5.5 ppm). Deselection of non-polyphenolic 1 H signals was based on information from 2D (1 H-13 C, 1 H-15 N) NMR spectra. 13 C NMR phlorotannin characterisation facilitated the average number of protons expected to be found per aromatic ring used for the 1 H quantification. RESULTS Selective qNMR and the TPC assay showed similar results for the three sublittoral growing species from the Laminariaceae; lower amounts for Laminaria hyperborea and Laminaria digitata (qNMR: 0.4%-0.6%; TPC: 0.6%-0.8%, phloroglucinol equivalents (PGE), dry weight (DW)) and higher amounts for Saccharina latissima (qNMR: 1.2%; TPC: 1.5%, PGE, DW). For the eulittoral Fucaceae, Fucus vesiculosus (qNMR: 1.1%; TPC: 4.1%; PGE, DW) and Ascophyllum nodosum (qNMR: 0.9%; TPC: 2.0%; PGE, DW), the TPC results were found to be up to three times higher than the qNMR results. The 13 C NMR characterisation showed the highest phlorotannin polymerisation degree for F. vesiculosus. CONCLUSION The TPC assay provided similar polyphenolic amounts to the selective qNMR method for sublittoral species. For eulittoral growing species, the TPC method showed amounts up to three times higher than the qNMR method-most likely illustrating the lack of selectivity in the TPC assay.
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- Marie Emilie Wekre
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of BergenBergenNorway
- Alginor ASAHaugesundNorway
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Vang JY, Breceda C, Her C, Krishnan VV. Enzyme kinetics by real-time quantitative NMR (qNMR) spectroscopy with progress curve analysis. Anal Biochem 2022; 658:114919. [PMID: 36154835 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2022.114919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Revised: 09/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This review article summarizes how the experimental data obtained using quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) spectroscopy can be combined with progress curve analysis to determine enzyme kinetic parameters. The qNMR approach enables following the enzymatic conversion of the substrate to the product in real-time by a continuous collection of spectra. The Lambert-W function, a closed-form solution to the time-dependent substrate/product kinetics of the rate equation, can estimate the Michaelis-Menten constant (KM.) and the maximum velocity (Vmax) from a single experiment. This article highlights how the qNMR data is well suited for analysis using the Lambert-W function with three different applications. Results from studies on acetylcholinesterase (acetylcholine to acetic acid and choline), β-Galactosidase (lactose to glucose and galactose), and invertase (sucrose to glucose and fructose) are presented. Furthermore, an additional example of how the progress curve analysis is applied to understand the inhibitory role of the artificial sweetener sucralose on sucrose's enzymatic conversion by invertase is discussed. With the wide availability of NMR spectrometers in academia and industries, including bench-top systems with permanent magnets, and the potential to enhance sensitivity using dynamic nuclear polarization in combination with ultrafast methods, the NMR-based enzyme kinetics could be considered a valuable tool for broader applications in the field of enzyme kinetics.
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- Justin Y Vang
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA, 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA, 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA, 93740, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, California State University, Fresno, CA, 93740, USA; Department of Medical Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, 95616, USA.
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Liu K, Wang M, Zhang G, Meng Z. Simultaneous determination of the component ratio and moisture content in TEGDN/NG composites by the qNMR method. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2022; 14:3203-3208. [PMID: 35943237 DOI: 10.1039/d2ay00770c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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A novel qNMR method was developed for the simultaneous determination of the component ratio and moisture content in triethyleneglycol dinitrate (TEGDN) and nitroglycerin (NG) composites. Using the ERETIC module technique of NMR spectrometry, moisture in the solvent and internal standard were eliminated by the integral value subtraction method, and the component ratio and moisture content in TEGDN/NG composites could be accurately calculated. Method validation was carried out in terms of the precision, stability, linearity, recovery, robustness, limit of quantification (LOQ) and limit of detection (LOD). The results of the qNMR method show good accuracy compared with the HPLC and Karl Fischer methods. Statistical Student's t-test and F-test at the 95% confidence level proved that there was no significant difference between the qNMR method and the other two methods. For TEGDN/NG composites of high-energy and high-sensitivity explosives, the low dose and high efficiency of the qNMR method could effectively avoid the danger of explosion and burning.
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- Ke Liu
- School of Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10081, China.
- Xi'an Modern Chemistry Research Institute, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10081, China.
- Xi'an Modern Chemistry Research Institute, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, China
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- Xi'an Modern Chemistry Research Institute, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710065, China
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- School of Chemical Engineering and the Environment, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 10081, China.
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Monakhova YB, Diehl BWK. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as an elegant tool for a complete quality control of crude heparin material. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2022; 219:114915. [PMID: 35777175 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2022.114915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2022] [Revised: 06/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/25/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometric methods for the quantitative analysis of pure heparin in crude heparin is proposed. For quantification, a two-step routine was developed using a USP heparin reference sample for calibration and benzoic acid as an internal standard. The method was successfully validated for its accuracy, reproducibility, and precision. The methodology was used to analyze 20 authentic porcine heparinoid samples having heparin content between 4.25 w/w % and 64.4 w/w %. The characterization of crude heparin products was further extended to a simultaneous analysis of these common ions: sodium, calcium, acetate and chloride. A significant, linear dependence was found between anticoagulant activity and assayed heparin content for thirteen heparinoids samples, for which reference data were available. A Diffused-ordered NMR experiment (DOSY) can be used for qualitative analysis of specific glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in heparinoid matrices and, potentially, for quantitative prediction of molecular weight of GAGs. NMR spectrometry therefore represents a unique analytical method suitable for the simultaneous quantitative control of organic and inorganic composition of crude heparin samples (especially heparin content) as well as an estimation of other physical and quality parameters (molecular weight, animal origin and activity).
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- Yulia B Monakhova
- Spectral Service AG, Emil-Hoffmann-Straße 33, 50996 Köln, Germany; FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Heinrich-Mußmann-Straße 1, 52428 Jülich, Germany; Institute of Chemistry, Saratov State University, Astrakhanskaya Street 83, 410012 Saratov, Russia.
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- Spectral Service AG, Emil-Hoffmann-Straße 33, 50996 Köln, Germany
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Determination of drug release profile of doxorubicin encapsulated in SLN with NMR spectroscopy. J Mol Struct 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2022.132686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Bhavaraju S, Sreerama SG, Taylor D, Rau S. Application of Quantitative NMR (qHNMR) towards Establishment of Pharmaceutical Reference Standard; A Case of a Ticagrelor Process Impurity. Chem Pharm Bull (Tokyo) 2022; 70:226-229. [PMID: 35228386 DOI: 10.1248/cpb.c21-00668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Quantitative proton NMR (qHNMR) methodology was employed for the stoichiometric (free base and the corresponding counterion) assessment of a ticagrelor process impurity, also referred to in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), Pharmacopeial Forum as Ticagrelor Related Compound A (RC A), [(1R,2S)-2-(3,4-difluorophenyl)cyclopropan-1-amine (R)-mandelate], also called as Tica amine mandelate, a critical impurity that, when present during manufacturing, has a limit of not more than 0.0008%. The Tica amine is also a listed impurity E in the Ticagrelor monograph, in European Pharmacopeia. Because there was no existing NMR spectroscopic method in the literature specific to quantify the counterion (mandelic acid) in Ticagrelor RC A, this study aimed to fill the gap. Accurate stoichiometric measurement of this impurity serves to enhance product quality in the manufacturing of the ticagrelor active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Using ethylene carbonate as an internal standard (IS), the qHNMR analysis on Ticagrelor impurity, revealed many key characteristics of the test mixture composition, including (free base and counterion). The results demonstrate that qHNMR has great potential for addressing several key quality attributes associated with chemical analyses such as detection, identification, quantification, and purity determination, as well as deriving molecular stoichiometry, all from the single proton spectrum.
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- Sitaram Bhavaraju
- Reference Standards Laboratory, United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
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- Reference Standards Laboratory, United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
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- Reference Standards Evaluation, United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
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Zhou J, Ning K, Yang Y, Zou L, Xue J, Kong X, Li W. 1H-NMR -based metabolic analysis on biocompatibility of dental biomaterials. Process Biochem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2020.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Debik J, Sangermani M, Wang F, Madssen TS, Giskeødegård GF. Multivariate analysis of NMR-based metabolomic data. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2022; 35:e4638. [PMID: 34738674 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy allows for simultaneous detection of a wide range of metabolites and lipids. As metabolites act together in complex metabolic networks, they are often highly correlated, and optimal biological insight is achieved when using methods that take the correlation into account. For this reason, latent-variable-based methods, such as principal component analysis and partial least-squares discriminant analysis, are widely used in metabolomic studies. However, with increasing availability of larger population cohorts, and a shift from analysis of spectral data to using quantified metabolite levels, both more traditional statistical approaches and alternative machine learning methods have become more widely used. This review aims at providing an overview of the current state-of-the-art multivariate methods for the analysis of NMR-based metabolomic data as well as alternative methods, highlighting their strengths and limitations.
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- Julia Debik
- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
- Clinic of Surgery, St. Olavs Hospital HF, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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- Clinic of Surgery, St. Olavs Hospital HF, Trondheim, Norway
- K.G. Jebsen Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
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Silva RCDA, de Sousa EGR, Mazzei JL, de Carvalho EM. Quantitative 1H NMR method for analyzing primaquine diphosphate in active pharmaceutical ingredients. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2022; 210:114585. [PMID: 35042143 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2022.114585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Thermal analysis, Fourier Transform IR, the isotropic chemical shift of 1H NMR in different solvents, their temperature dependence and spin-lattice relaxation time constant (T1), solution 1D and 2D NMR, and solid-state 13C and 31P NMR (magic angle spinning NMR) were employed to obtain full information and elucidate the structures of primaquine diphosphate (PQD) samples used for quality controlling malaria medicines. Additionally, a simple, rapid, specific, and reliable quantitative method (qNMR) was developed to determine the PQD level in the raw material of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The method was developed using ethylene carbonate (EC) as the internal standard and dimethylsulfoxide-d6 (DMSO-d6) as the NMR solvent. For the API qNMR, 1H NMR signals at 3.82 and 1.22 ppm were used. The qNMR methodology, through the linearity, range, LOD and LOQ, stability, precision, robustness, and accuracy, was validated within the requirements of guidelines. The accuracy of the qNMR was evaluated by comparing it to a pharmacopeial HPLC technique and there were no statistical differences (p > 0.05). The proposed qNMR method authentically supports and endorses the current pharmacopoeial methods used for determining the PQD content.
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- Rafaella C de A Silva
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Farmanguinhos, Rua Sizenando Nabuco, 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Farmanguinhos, Rua Sizenando Nabuco, 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Farmanguinhos, Rua Sizenando Nabuco, 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Farmanguinhos, Rua Sizenando Nabuco, 100, Manguinhos, 21041-250 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Vice-Presidência de Produção e Inovação em Saúde, Avenida Brasil, 4365. Manguinhos, 21040-360 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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Zhao J, Wang M, Saroja SG, Khan IA. NMR technique and methodology in botanical health product analysis and quality control. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2022; 207:114376. [PMID: 34656935 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.114376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Revised: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Botanicals have played an important role in maintaining human health and well-being throughout history. During the past few decades in particular, the use of botanical health products has gained more popularity. Whereas, quality, safety and efficacy concerns have continuously been critical issues due to the intrinsic chemical complexity of botanicals. Chemical analytical technologies play an imperative role in addressing these issues. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful and useful tool for the investigation of botanical health products. In this review, NMR techniques and methodologies that have been successfully applied to the research and development of botanical health products in all stages, from plants to products, are discussed and summarized. Furthermore, applications of NMR together with other analytical techniques in a variety of domains of botanical health products investigation, such as plant species differentiation, adulteration detection, and bio-activity evaluation, are discussed and illustrated with typical examples. This article provides an overview of the potential uses of NMR techniques and methodologies in an attempt to further promote their recognition and utilization in the field of botanical health products analysis and quality control.
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- Jianping Zhao
- National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA.
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- Natural Products Utilization Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, University, MS 38677, USA
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- National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
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- National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR), School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA; Division of Pharmacognosy, Department of BioMolecular Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA.
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Malca-Garcia GR, Liu Y, Nikolić D, Friesen JB, Lankin DC, McAlpine JB, Chen SN, Pauli GF. Investigation of red clover (Trifolium pratense) isoflavonoid residual complexity by off-line CCS-qHNMR. Fitoterapia 2022; 156:105016. [PMID: 34416305 PMCID: PMC8742771 DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2021.105016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2021] [Revised: 08/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The importance of Trifolium pratense L. as a dietary supplement and its use in traditional medicine prompted the preparation of a thorough metabolite profile. This included the identification and quantitation of principal constituents as well as low abundant metabolites that constitute the residual complexity (RC) of T. pratense bioactives. The purity and RC of isoflavonoid fractions from standardized red clover extract (RCE) was determined using an off-line combination of countercurrent separation (CCS) and two orthogonal analytical methodologies: quantitative 1H NMR spectroscopy with external calibration (EC-qHNMR) and LC-MS. A single-step hydrostatic CCS methodology (Centrifugal Partition Chromatography [CPC]) was developed that fractionated the isoflavonoids with a hexanes-ethyl acetate-methanol-water (HEMWat) 5.5/4.5/5/5, v/v solvent system (SS) into 75 fractions containing 3 flavonolignans, 2 isoflavonoid glycosides, as well as 17 isoflavonoids and related compounds. All metabolites were identified and quantified by qHNMR spectroscopy. The data led to the creation of a complete isoflavonoid profile to complement the biological evaluation. For example, fraction 69 afforded 90.5% w/w biochanin A (17), with 0.33% w/w of prunetin (16), and 0.76% w/w of maackiain (15) as residual components. Fraction 27 with 89.4% w/w formononetin (13) as the major component had, in addition, a residual complexity consisting of 3.37%, 0.73%, 0.68% w/w of pseudobaptigenin (11), kaempferol (10) and pratensein (8), respectively. Despite the relatively high resolving power of CPC, and not unexpectedly, the chromatographic fractions retained varying degrees of the original metabolomic diversity. Collectively, the extent of metabolomic diversity should be recognized and used to guide the development of isolation strategies, especially when generating samples for bioactivity evaluation. The simultaneous structural and quantitative characterization enabled by qNMR, supported by LC-MS measurements, enables the evaluation of a relatively large number of individual fractions and, thereby, advances both the chemical and biological evaluation of active principles in complex natural products.
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- Gonzalo R Malca-Garcia
- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Physical Sciences Department, Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, Dominican University, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest, IL 60305, USA
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- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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- UIC Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
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Ma C, Liu Y, Xu Q, Giancaspro GI, Tan S. Use of qNMR to determine HPLC relative response factors for botanical reference standards used in pharmacopeial monographs. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2022; 212:114618. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2022.114618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Revised: 01/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/24/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Zhou X, Shen Y, Liu F, Ye J, Wang X, Zhao J, Zhang S, Wang L, Li S, Chen J. A Novel Dual-Stage Phase Separation Process for CO 2 Absorption into a Biphasic Solvent with Low Energy Penalty. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:15313-15322. [PMID: 34517700 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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An amine-based biphasic solvent is promising to cut down the energy penalty of CO2 capture. However, the high viscosity of the CO2-enriched solvent retards its industrial application. This work proposed a novel dual-stage phase separation process using a triethylenetetramine and 2-(diethylamino)ethanol blend as a biphasic solvent, which separates a certain proportion of CO2-enriched phase during CO2 absorption to reduce its viscosity. Experimental results showed that the proposed dual-stage phase separation process improved the phase separation behavior and effectively enhanced the absorption rate by 49% at 50 °C, when 50 vol % CO2-enriched phase was separated at 0.3 mol mol-1. Kinetic analysis showed that the absorption rate was mainly controlled by liquid-side mass transfer. The regeneration heat of the dual-stage phase separation process cut down the energy penalty by 33% compared with the monoethanolamine-based process. Compared with the conventional biphasic solvent-based process, the heat duty was further declined by 8%. The 1H nuclear magnetic resonance analysis showed that the dual-stage phase separation process could effectively control the generation of absorption products and intensify the interphase migration of tertiary amines.
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- Xiaowei Zhou
- Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
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- College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology for Industrial Pollution Control of Zhejiang Province, College of Environment, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China
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Khalil A, Kashif M. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Quantitative Analysis: A Review for Its Application in the Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Domains. Crit Rev Anal Chem 2021; 53:997-1011. [PMID: 34752175 DOI: 10.1080/10408347.2021.2000359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a rapid and accurate analytical tool for qualification and quantification. The capacity of NMR of being quantitative can also justify the calibration of other analytical methods. In pharmaceutical domain, quantitative NMR (qNMR) can be applied in the identification and quantification of drug simultaneously. The early drug development stage requires a minimum sample for analysis. Thus, priority should be given to utilize this technique to attain results with least investment, rapid analysis time and minimum sample consumption. This technique is a significant phenomenon to identify impurities, drug substance, residual solvents of in-process control (IPC) samples and characterizing the formulations. From an analyst's perspective, qNMR proved to be a routine practice in pharmaceutical industry to qualify any drug product. The absolute and relative methods offer great help in quantifying the component of interest in the process control samples and finished products. This review highlights the evolution of NMR application in the pharmaceutical industry, where determining the purity of drug substance, drug product and establishing the identity of impurities and its level are the challenging aspects. NMR in medicinal field emerging as a numero uno for Covid-19 severity detection and its dire consequences, accelerated vaccine development and the mapping of SAR-COV-2 RNA and proteins via chemical shift assignments.
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- Adila Khalil
- Analytical Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
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- Analytical Chemistry Section, Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Research Progress of NMR in Natural Product Quantification. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26206308. [PMID: 34684890 PMCID: PMC8541192 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26206308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2021] [Revised: 10/11/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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In the fields of medicine and health, traditional high-performance liquid chromatography or UV-visible spectrophotometry is generally used for substance quantification. However, over time, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) has gradually become more mature. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has certain advantages in the quantitative analysis of substances, such as being nondestructive, having a high flux and short analysis time. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has been included in the pharmacopoeiae of various countries. In this paper, the principle of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the recent progress in the quantitative study of natural products by NMR are reviewed, and its application in the quantitative study of natural products is proposed. At the same time, the problems of using NMR alone to quantify natural products are summarized and corresponding suggestions are put forward.
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Dyga M, Oppel C, Gooßen LJ. RotoMate: An open-source, 3D printed autosampler for use with benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers. HARDWAREX 2021; 10:e00211. [PMID: 35607663 PMCID: PMC9123427 DOI: 10.1016/j.ohx.2021.e00211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers are versatile analytic instruments with low acquisition and operation cost. However, in the basic version, samples must be manually measured one after the other. We herein describe the open-source autosampler RotoMate that allows the automated operation of such instruments. The hardware is easily assembled from 3D-printed and inexpensive off-the-shelf parts, and is controlled by an Arduino Uno. A software package interlinks the operation of the autosampler with the software of the NMR spectrometer and the software for the processing of the spectra. Experiments for up to 30 samples can be inserted into an interactive sample list. The autosampler automatically inserts and ejects the samples, initiates measurements on the spectrometer according to parameters specified in the sample list, and interacts with a common NMR software in the processing and visualization of the obtained spectroscopic raw data. If an internal standard is present, conversions and yields of chemical reactions are automatically calculated, enabling e.g. the monitoring of reactions. The device was fitted to a Magritek Spinsolve instrument and can interact with a free academic version of ACD NMR software to process the spectra, but can likely be adapted to similar instruments and spectroscopy software packages.
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Tang Y, Friesen JB, Nikolić DS, Lankin DC, McAlpine JB, Chen SN, Pauli GF. Tandem of Countercurrent Separation and qHNMR Enables Gravimetric Analyses: Absolute Quantitation of the Rhodiola rosea Metabolome. Anal Chem 2021; 93:11701-11709. [PMID: 34461730 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c01554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Off-line combination of countercurrent separation (CCS) and quantitative 1H NMR (qHNMR) methodologies enabled the systematic dissection and gravimetric quantification of a chemically complex Rhodiola rosea crude extract (RCE). The loss-free nature and high selectivity of CCS achieved the quantitative discrimination of fatty acids (FAs), sugars, and proanthocyanidins (PACs) from ten other metabolite classes: phenylpropanoids, phenylethanoids, acyclic monoterpenoid glycosides, pinene derived glycosides, benzyl alcohol glycosides, cyanogenic glycosides, flavonoids, gallic acids, methylparabens, and cuminol glycosides. The ability of CCS to remove ("knockout") PACs completely resolved challenges with baselines that plague NMR and UHPLC analyses and produce inaccurate integral and AUC quantitation, respectively. NMR analysis of the non-PAC fractions enabled unambiguous identification of metabolites and their characteristic resonances for subsequent multitarget absolute quantification by qHNMR using a single, nonidentical internal calibrant (IC). An orthogonal LC-MS/MS method validated the gravimetric nature of the CCS-qHNMR analytical tandem. Underlying this LC-based cross-validation, comprehensive phytochemical isolation and characterization established 19 single-compound reference standards that represented all ten metabolite classes. Finally, quantum mechanical 1H iterative Full Spin Analysis (HiFSA) of each standard provided a blueprint for future structural dereplication, identification, and quantification of Rhodiola marker constituents. The combination of two gravimetric analytical methods, loss-free CCS and IC-qHNMR, realizes the first chemical standardization of a botanical material that comprehensively captures a metabolome and permits absolute quantification.
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- Yu Tang
- UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.,Physical Sciences Department, Rosary College of Arts and Sciences, Dominican University, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest, Illinois 60305, United States
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- UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.,Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- UIC/NIH Center for Botanical Dietary Supplements Research, Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.,Center for Natural Product Technologies (CENAPT), Pharmacognosy Institute, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 South Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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Ruiz-Muelle AB, Moreno PG, Fernández I. Quantitative quadrupolar NMR (qQNMR) using nitrogen-14 for the determination of choline in complex matrixes. Talanta 2021; 230:122344. [PMID: 33934793 DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/18/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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NMR offers the unique potential to selectively excite the chosen nuclei avoiding in an extraordinary way the matrix effect. Quantitative Nitrogen-14 NMR (14N qNMR) spectroscopy has been introduced for the first time as a robust and validated method to determine choline in a variety of matrixes including quinoa grains, instant coffee and food supplements. A study about the ion pairing of choline bitartrate in aqueous solution by means of diffusion PGSE, NOESY and HOESY NMR have been also provided. Validation of the method within eight concentrations levels (from 1.58 to 79.0 mM) afforded a limit of detection of 400 μg/mL (1.58 mM), a quantification limit of 1000 μg/mL (3.95 mM), excellent linearity (R2 higher than 0.999), intra-/inter-day precisions lower than 1.24% (CV), recoveries of 93.5%-102.5%, and complete absence of matrix effect. The fast and reliable quantification of choline together with the accuracy and simplicity of this new approach make it useful in the development of analytical procedures that could dramatically affect traditional analysis.
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- Ana Belén Ruiz-Muelle
- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Research Centre CIAIMBITAL, University of Almería, Ctra. Sacramento, s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Research Centre CIAIMBITAL, University of Almería, Ctra. Sacramento, s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Physics, Research Centre CIAIMBITAL, University of Almería, Ctra. Sacramento, s/n, 04120, Almería, Spain.
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Krishnamurthy K. Complete Reduction to Amplitude Frequency Table (CRAFT)-A perspective. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2021; 59:757-791. [PMID: 33486830 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.5135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2020] [Revised: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The CRAFT (Complete Reduction to Amplitude Frequency Table) technique, based on Bayesian analysis approach, converts FID and/or interferogram (time domain) to a frequency-amplitude table (tabular domain) in a robust, automated, and time-efficient fashion. This mini review/perspective presents an introduction to CRAFT as a processing workflow followed by a discussion of several practical 1D and 2D examples of its applicability and associated benefit. CRAFT provides high quality quantitative results for complex systems without any need for conventional preprocessing steps, such as phase and baseline corrections. Two-dimensional time domain data are typically truncated, particularly in the evolution dimension, and conventional processing after zero-filling and t1max -matched apodization masks potentially available peak resolution. The line broadening introduced by extensive zero-filling and severe apodization functions leads to the lack of clear resolution of cross peaks. CRAFT decimation of interferograms, on the other hand, requires minimal or no apodization prior to extraction of the NMR parameters and significantly improves the spectral linewidth of the cross peaks along F1 dimension compared to conventional (FT) processing. The tabular representation of the CRAFT2d cross peaks information can be visualized in a variety of frequency domain formats for conventional spectral interpretation as well as quantitative applications. A simple workflow to generate in silico oversampled interferogram (iSOS) is presented, and its potential benefit in CRAFT decimation of highly crowded 2D NMR is demonstrated. This report is meant as a collective thesis to present a potentially new paradigm in data processing that questions the need for hitherto unchallenged preprocessing steps, such as phase and baseline correction in 1D and zero-fill/severe apodization in 2D.
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Khirich G. A Monte Carlo Method for Analyzing Systematic and Random Uncertainty in Quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements. Anal Chem 2021; 93:10039-10047. [PMID: 34251807 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) is a powerful analytical technology that is capable of quantifying the concentration of any analyte with exquisite accuracy and precision so long as it contains at least one nonlabile nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-active nucleus. Unlike with traditional analytical technologies, the concentrations of analytes do not directly influence the uncertainty in the quantification of NMR signals because an ideal NMR response depends only on the nature and amount of the nucleus being observed. Rather, in the absence of spectral artifacts and under favorable experimental conditions, the measurement uncertainty may be influenced by the following factors: (1) spectroscopic parameters such as the spectral width, number of time domain points, and acquisition time; (2) postacquisition data processing, such as apodization and zero-filling; (3) the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and lineshapes of the two signals being used in a qNMR measurement; and (4) the method of signal quantification employed, such as numerical integration or lineshape fitting (LF). Here, a general Monte Carlo (MC) method that considers these factors is presented, with which the random and systematic contributions to qNMR measurement uncertainty may be calculated. Autocorrelation analysis of synthetic and experimental noise is used in a fingerprint-like approach to demonstrate the validity of the simulations. The MC method allows for a general quantitative assessment of measurement uncertainty without the need to acquire spectral replicates and without reference to the molecular structures and concentrations of analytes. Representative examples of qNMR measurement uncertainty simulations are provided in which the metrological performances of integration and LF are contrasted for signal pairs obtained using various acquisition and processing schemes in the low-SNR regime-an area where application of the proposed MC method may prove to be particularly salient.
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- Gennady Khirich
- Analytical Operations, Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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Ocampos FMM, de Souza AJB, Antar GM, Wouters FC, Colnago LA. Phytotoxicity of Schiekia timida Seed Extracts, a Mixture of Phenylphenalenones. Molecules 2021; 26:4197. [PMID: 34299471 PMCID: PMC8304753 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26144197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2021] [Revised: 07/03/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Phenylphenalenones, metabolites found in Schiekia timida (Haemodoraceae), are a class of specialized metabolites with many biological activities, being phytoalexins in banana plants. In the constant search to solve the problem of glyphosate and to avoid resistance to commercial herbicides, this work aimed to investigate the phytotoxic effect of the methanolic extract of S. timida seeds. The chemical composition of the seed extract was directly investigated by NMR and UPLC-QToF MS and the pre- and post-emergence phytotoxic effect on a eudicotyledonous model (Lactuca sativa) and a monocotyledonous model (Allium cepa) was evaluated through germination and seedling growth tests. Three concentrations of the extract (0.25, 0.50, and 1.00 mg/mL) were prepared, and four replicates for each of them were analyzed. Three major phenylphenalenones were identified by NMR spectroscopy: 4-hydroxy-anigorufone, methoxyanigorufone, and anigorufone, two of those reported for the first time in S. timida. The presence of seven other phenylphenalenones was suggested by the LC-MS analyses. The phenylphenalenone mixture did not affect the germination rate, but impaired radicle and hypocotyl growth on both models. The effect in the monocotyledonous model was statistically similar to glyphosate in the lowest concentration (0.25 mg/mL). Therefore, although more research on this topic is required to probe this first report, this investigation suggests for the first time that phenylphenalenone compounds may be post-emergence herbicides.
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- Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Bauru CEP 17033-360, SP, Brazil;
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- Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Butantã, São Paulo CEP 05508-090, SP, Brazil;
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- Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR), São Carlos CEP 13565-905, SP, Brazil;
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Feng Y, Li Q, Yang L, Zhang Y, Qiu D. The Use of 1H-qNMR Method for Simultaneous Determination of Osthol, Columbianadin, and Isoimperatorin in Angelicae Pubescentis Radix. J AOAC Int 2021; 103:851-856. [PMID: 33241377 DOI: 10.1093/jaoacint/qsz031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The goal of this work was to establish a method to identify and quantify the main active components in Angelicae Pubescentis Radix (APR) quickly, simply, and accurately. This paper reports a novel method which can determine osthol, isoimperatorin, and columbianadin using 1H-qNMR simultaneously and quantitatively. METHODS In comprehensive consideration of resolution of target signals and the solubility of materials, dimethyl sulfoxide-d6 (DMSO-d6) was selected as an optimal 1H-qNMR solvent and pyrazine was used as internal standard substance (δ8.66 ppm). The quantitative peaks of three active components were determined using specific 1H resonances at δ7.54-7.56 ppm for osthol, δ6.83-6.85 ppm for columbianadin, and δ6.31-6.32 ppm for isoimperatorin. RESULTS The results show that the method has good precision, stability, and repeatability. The content of APR plant material from Huating is 9.8 mg/g, 5.6 mg/g, and 15.6 mg/g for osthol, columbianadin, and isoimperatorin, respectively. Furthermore, the experimental process is simple and the test time is short (1 min). CONCLUSIONS The proposed quantitative 1H-qNMR methodology can be used for the quality control of APR.
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- Yanmei Feng
- Gansu Agricultural University, Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Lanzhou 730070, PR China
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- Gansu Agricultural University, Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Lanzhou 730070, PR China
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- Gansu Agricultural University, Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Lanzhou 730070, PR China
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- Gansu Agricultural University, Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Lanzhou 730070, PR China
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- Gansu Agricultural University, Gansu Provincial Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Lanzhou 730070, PR China
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Quantitative 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Method for Assessing the Purity of Dipotassium Glycyrrhizinate. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26123549. [PMID: 34200734 PMCID: PMC8230393 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26123549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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A simple, rapid, accurate, and selective quantitative method based on 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (qNMR) was successfully established and developed for assessing the purity of dipotassium glycyrrhizinate (KG). In this study, using potassium hydrogen phthalate and fumaric acid as internal standard (IS), several important experimental parameters, such as relaxation delay and pulse angle, were explored. Reliability, specificity, linearity, limit of quantification, precision, stability, and accuracy were also validated. Calibration results obtained from qNMR were consistent with those obtained from HPLC coupled with ultraviolet detection. The proposed method, independent of the reference standard substance, is a useful, reliable, and practical protocol for the determination of KG and glycyrrhizin analogs.
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Caleja-Ballesteros HJR, Ballesteros JI, Villena MC. No-D quantitative 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy method for the determination of ethanol in distilled spirits. Microchem J 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2021.105999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Bhavaraju S, Taylor D, Niemitz M, Lankin DC, Bzhelyansky A, Giancaspro GI, Liu Y, Pauli GF. NMR-Based Quantum Mechanical Analysis Builds Trust and Orthogonality in Structural Analysis: The Case of a Bisdesmosidic Triglycoside as Withania somnifera Aerial Parts Marker. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2021; 84:836-845. [PMID: 33625215 PMCID: PMC8049857 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c01131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The present study demonstrates the relationship between conventional and quantum mechanical (QM) NMR spectroscopic analyses, shown here to assist in building a convincingly orthogonal platform for the solution and documentation of demanding structures. Kaempferol-3-O-robinoside-7-O-glucoside, a bisdesmosidic flavonol triglycoside and botanical marker for the aerial parts of Withania somnifera, served as an exemplary case. As demonstrated, QM-based 1H iterative full spin analysis (HiFSA) advances the understanding of both individual nuclear resonance spin patterns and the entire 1H NMR spectrum of a molecule and establishes structurally determinant, numerical HiFSA profiles. The combination of HiFSA with regular 1D 1H NMR spectra allows for simplified yet specific identification tests via comparison of high-quality experimental with QM-calculated spectra. HiFSA accounts for all features encountered in 1H NMR spectra: nonlinear high-order effects, complex multiplets, and their usually overlapped signals. As HiFSA replicates spectrum patterns from field-independent parameters with high accuracy, this methodology can be ported to low-field NMR instruments (40-100 MHz). With its reliance on experimental NMR evidence, the QM approach builds up confidence in structural characterization and potentially reduces identity analyses to simple 1D 1H NMR experiments. This approach may lead to efficient implementation of conclusive identification tests in pharmacopeial and regulatory analyses: from simple organics to complex natural products.
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- Sitaram Bhavaraju
- United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States
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- United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States
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- United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States
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- United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Rockville, Maryland 20852, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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Facile preparation of solid dispersions by dissolving drugs in N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone and photopolymerization. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 2021; 124:112063. [PMID: 33947557 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2021.112063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 03/12/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Drug solid dispersions improve the dissolution of drugs in aqueous media for enhancement of oral bioavailability. The current preparation methods of drug solid dispersions mainly involve the evaporation of solvents or the melting of drugs and matrix. Here, we create a new and simple method for the preparation of drug solid dispersions by dissolving drugs in N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone (NVP) and then NVP photopolymerization. A variety of drugs were explored to find whether they were suitable for this method and only some of them were soluble in NVP and formed transparent and hard solid dispersions, including fluconazole, ketoconazole, bifonazole, miconazole nitrate, sulfamethoxazole, aspirin, ibuprofen and artesunate. The formation of photocuring solid dispersions was highly related to the free radical scavenging function of drugs. Those drugs with strong free radical scavenging capability, including curcumin, resveratrol, quercetin, genistein, puerarin, nicergoline, olanzapine, indomethacin, did not form solid dispersions. They scavenged 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl free radicals, which was demonstrated by ultraviolet spectrometry and electron spin resonance. The scavenging of free radicals stopped the chain polymerization of NVP. The Fourier transform infrared spectra, X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry of ibuprofen solid dispersions and artesunate solid dispersions showed the molecularly miscible state of the drugs and the hydrogen bonding between the drugs and polyvinyl pyrrolidone. The NVP-based solid dispersions of the two drugs had faster and more complete dissolution than their traditional solid dispersions. The NVP photopolymerization-based solid dispersion method provides a new choice for the production of solid dispersions in the research and industrial fields.
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Muhamadejev R, Melngaile R, Paegle P, Zibarte I, Petrova M, Jaudzems K, Veliks J. Residual Solvent Signal of CDCl 3 as a qNMR Internal Standard for Application in Organic Chemistry Laboratory. J Org Chem 2021; 86:3890-3896. [PMID: 33577308 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c02744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer is a key instrument in the organic synthesis laboratory for structure determination, reaction control, and compound purity analysis. In addition to qualitative analysis, the application of NMR for quantitative analysis (qNMR) is gaining popularity. qNMR allows for simple quantification of crude product mixtures, determination of reaction yields, and purity of organic compounds. The determination of NMR yield requires the addition of an internal standard to each sample. Herein, we report a method where CDCl3 residual solvent signal is used as an internal standard for qNMR after quantification in the solvent batch. This method significantly simplifies sample preparation and allows straightforward recovery of the analyte by the simple evaporation of the NMR solvent. The accuracy of the method is comparable to qNMR with 1,3,5-trimethoxybenzene as an internal standard if the herein described guidelines are followed.
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- Ruslan Muhamadejev
- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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- Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Aizkraukles 21, LV-1006 Riga, Latvia
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Daley SK, Cordell GA. Natural Products, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the Quintuple Helix. Nat Prod Commun 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/1934578x211003029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The profound interconnectedness of the sciences and technologies embodied in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is discussed in terms of the global role of natural products, and how that interplays with the development of sustainable and climate-conscious practices of cyberecoethnopharmacolomics within the Quintuple Helix for the promotion of a healthier planet and society.
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- Natural Products Inc., Evanston, IL, USA
- Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Nagana Gowda GA, Hong NN, Raftery D. Evaluation of Fumaric Acid and Maleic Acid as Internal Standards for NMR Analysis of Protein Precipitated Plasma, Serum, and Whole Blood. Anal Chem 2021; 93:3233-3240. [PMID: 33538164 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c04766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Significant advances have been made in unknown metabolite identification and expansion of the number of quantifiable metabolites in human plasma, serum, and whole blood using NMR spectroscopy. However, reliable quantitation of metabolites is still a challenge. A major bottleneck is the lack of a suitable internal standard that does not interact with the complex blood sample matrix and also does not overlap with metabolite peaks apart from exhibiting other favorable characteristics. With the goal of addressing this challenge, a comprehensive investigation of fumaric and maleic acids as potential internal standards was made along with a comparison with the conventional standards, TSP (trimethylsilylpropionic acid) and DSS (trimethylsilylpropanesulfonic acid). Both fumaric acid and maleic acid exhibited a surprisingly high performance with a quantitation error <1%, while the TSP and DSS caused an average error of up to 35% in plasma, serum, and whole blood. Further, the results indicate that while fumaric acid is a robust standard for all three biospecimens, maleic acid is suitable for only plasma and serum. Maleic acid is not suited for the analysis of whole blood due to its overlap with coenzyme peaks. These findings provide new opportunities for improved and accurate quantitation of metabolites in human plasma, serum, and whole blood using NMR spectroscopy. Moreover, the use of protein precipitation prior to NMR analysis mirrors the sample preparation commonly used for mass spectrometry based metabolomics, such that these findings further strengthen efforts to combine and compare NMR and MS based metabolite data of human plasma, serum, and whole blood for metabolomics based research.
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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Crosino A, Moscato E, Blangetti M, Carotenuto G, Spina F, Bordignon S, Puech-Pagès V, Anfossi L, Volpe V, Prandi C, Gobetto R, Varese GC, Genre A. Extraction of short chain chitooligosaccharides from fungal biomass and their use as promoters of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:3798. [PMID: 33589668 PMCID: PMC7884697 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83299-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Short chain chitooligosaccharides (COs) are chitin derivative molecules involved in plant-fungus signaling during arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) interactions. In host plants, COs activate a symbiotic signalling pathway that regulates AM-related gene expression. Furthermore, exogenous CO application was shown to promote AM establishment, with a major interest for agricultural applications of AM fungi as biofertilizers. Currently, the main source of commercial COs is from the shrimp processing industry, but purification costs and environmental concerns limit the convenience of this approach. In an attempt to find a low cost and low impact alternative, this work aimed to isolate, characterize and test the bioactivity of COs from selected strains of phylogenetically distant filamentous fungi: Pleurotus ostreatus, Cunninghamella bertholletiae and Trichoderma viride. Our optimized protocol successfully isolated short chain COs from lyophilized fungal biomass. Fungal COs were more acetylated and displayed a higher biological activity compared to shrimp-derived COs, a feature that-alongside low production costs-opens promising perspectives for the large scale use of COs in agriculture.
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- Andrea Crosino
- Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31320, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Life Science and Systems Biology, University of Turin, 10125, Turin, Italy.
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Höpfner J, Mayerhöfer B, Botha C, Bouillaud D, Farjon J, Giraudeau P, Wilhelm M. Solvent suppression techniques for coupling of size exclusion chromatography and 1H NMR using benchtop spectrometers at 43 and 62 MHz. JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE (SAN DIEGO, CALIF. : 1997) 2021; 323:106889. [PMID: 33518176 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Revised: 12/03/2020] [Accepted: 12/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The characterisation of polymeric materials in their full complexity of chain length, monomeric composition, branching and functionalization is a tremendous challenge and is best tackled by tailored multi-dimensional coupled analytical and detection techniques. Herein, we focus on the improvement of an affordable but information rich 2D-method for polymer analysis: the online hyphenation of benchtop 1H NMR spectroscopy with size exclusion chromatography (SEC). The main benefit of this approach is correlated information of chain length (SEC) to chemical composition (1H NMR). Our setup combines SEC onflow with a benchtop NMR spectrometer at 43 or 62 MHz with chemical shift resolution as a robust detector. A detailed comparison of the two instruments is included considering, that only the 43 MHz instrument is equipped with a dedicated z-gradient enabling pulse sequences such as WET. The main challenge of this method is the very low concentration of species of interest after chromatographic separation. At typical SEC conditions, the analyte dilution is typically more than a factor of 1000:1 in a protonated solvent. Therefore, an efficient solvent signal suppression is needed. In this article, several suppression pulse sequences are explored like WET, WEFT, JNR and a simple one-pulse approach - some for the first time on this hardware. By choosing an optimal method, signal strength ratios of solvent to analyte of 1:1 or better are achievable on flow. To illustrate the broad range of possible applications, three typical cases of analyte to solvent signal proximity (no overlap, partial and full overlap) are discussed using typical polymers (PS, PMMA, PEMA) and solvents (chloroform and THF). For each case, several suppression methods are compared and evaluated using a set of numerical criteria (analyte signal suppression and broadening, solvent signal suppression, remaining solvent signal width).
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- J Höpfner
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Engesserstr. 18, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Engesserstr. 18, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Engesserstr. 18, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France.
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry, Engesserstr. 18, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Solovyev PA, Fauhl-Hassek C, Riedl J, Esslinger S, Bontempo L, Camin F. NMR spectroscopy in wine authentication: An official control perspective. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 2021; 20:2040-2062. [PMID: 33506593 DOI: 10.1111/1541-4337.12700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Revised: 11/30/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Wine authentication is vital in identifying malpractice and fraud, and various physical and chemical analytical techniques have been employed for this purpose. Besides wet chemistry, these include chromatography, isotopic ratio mass spectrometry, optical spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which have been applied in recent years in combination with chemometric approaches. For many years, 2 H NMR spectroscopy was the method of choice and achieved official recognition in the detection of sugar addition to grape products. Recently, 1 H NMR spectroscopy, a simpler and faster method (in terms of sample preparation), has gathered more and more attention in wine analysis, even if it still lacks official recognition. This technique makes targeted quantitative determination of wine ingredients and nontargeted detection of the metabolomic fingerprint of a wine sample possible. This review summarizes the possibilities and limitations of 1 H NMR spectroscopy in analytical wine authentication, by reviewing its applications as reported in the literature. Examples of commercial and open-source solutions combining NMR spectroscopy and chemometrics are also examined herein, together with its opportunities of becoming an official method.
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- Pavel A Solovyev
- Department of Food Quality and Nutrition, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), via E. Mach 1, San Michele all'Adige, 38010, Italy
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Safety in the Food Chain, Unit Product Identity, Supply Chains and Traceability, Max-Dohrn Strasse, 8-10, Berlin, 10589, Germany
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Safety in the Food Chain, Unit Product Identity, Supply Chains and Traceability, Max-Dohrn Strasse, 8-10, Berlin, 10589, Germany
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Safety in the Food Chain, Unit Product Identity, Supply Chains and Traceability, Max-Dohrn Strasse, 8-10, Berlin, 10589, Germany
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- Department of Food Quality and Nutrition, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), via E. Mach 1, San Michele all'Adige, 38010, Italy
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- Department of Food Quality and Nutrition, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), via E. Mach 1, San Michele all'Adige, 38010, Italy.,Center Agriculture Food Environment (C3A), University of Trento, via Mach 1, San Michele all'Adige, Tennessee, 38010, Italy
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Bahadoor A, Brinkmann A, Melanson JE. 13C-Satellite Decoupling Strategies for Improving Accuracy in Quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Anal Chem 2021; 93:851-858. [PMID: 33300782 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Quantitative 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (qHNMR) with an appropriate internal standard is a well-established quantitation method for assigning purity to organic molecules. For accurate measurements, the premise of qHNMR relies on the careful selection of integrals, for both the analyte and the standard, in such a way that the selected integrals are free from interferences. The 13C-satellite signals of adjacent integrals, low-level impurities, and tautomer signals are among the common integral interferences that are typically encountered. One of the simplest ways to identify and avoid these interferences is to decouple the 13C-satellites. Two decoupling schemes were explored to illustrate the benefits of 13C-decoupling for qHNMR or qH{13C}NMR: GARP and bilevel adiabatic broadband decoupling. Unwanted sample heating and nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) enhancements are the two main drawbacks of decoupling schemes. We show that with careful optimization of acquisition parameters and decoupling power, no excessive sample heating occurred during acquisition at 400 MHz. At 900 MHz, only bilevel adiabatic decoupling could be safely implemented. Furthermore, any undesirable NOE enhancements were completely avoided if acquisition was executed with an inverse-gated pulse sequence. We explored and confirmed the benefits of qH{13C}NMR through the quantitation of a diverse set of compounds, namely, small molecules (dimethyl terephthalate and zearalenone), a 13C-labeled compound (13C6-ochratoxin A), and an octapeptide (angiotensin II). Statistical comparisons confirmed that qH{13C}NMR produced comparable data to qHNMR. However, with qH{13C}NMR data providing added clarity about the presence of overlapping 13C-satellites, impurities, and tautomers, it has an edge over qHNMR for accurate measurements.
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- Adilah Bahadoor
- Metrology, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Metrology, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Metrology, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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