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Gavrilović I, Wüst B, Danaceau J, Braidman E, de la Torre X, Botrè F, Parr MK, Cowan D. Routine application of SFC-MS in doping control: Analysis of 3 × 1000 urine samples using three different SFC-MS instruments. Drug Test Anal 2024. [PMID: 38361255 DOI: 10.1002/dta.3652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
Abstract
Supercritical fluid chromatography-mass spectrometry (SFC-MS) has proved to be a beneficial tool for sample analysis for a wide variety of compounds and, as such, has recently gained the attention of the anti-doping community. We have tested the applicability of SFC-MS for routine doping control analysing approximately 3 × 1000 identical anti-doping samples utilising SFC-MS instruments from three different vendors: Agilent Technologies, Waters Corporation and Shimadzu Corporation. A 'dilute and inject' approach either without or after hydrolysis of glucuronide metabolites was applied. Most of the compounds included in our study demonstrated excellent chromatography, whereas some showed co-elution with endogenous interferences requiring MS discrimination. Retention times typically were very stable within batches (%CV ≤ 0.5%), although this appeared to be analyte and column dependent. Chromatographic peak shape was good (symmetrical) and stable over the period of the testing without any change of column. Our results suggest that SFC-MS is a sensitive, reproducible and robust analytical tool ready to be used in anti-doping laboratories alongside the currently applied techniques such as gas and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. Even if instruments are designed slightly differently, all three setups demonstrated their fitness for the purpose in anti-doping testing.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ivana Gavrilović
- Drug Control Centre, King's Forensics, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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- Agilent Technologies GmbH, Hewlett Packard Straße 8, Waldbronn, Germany
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- Laboratorio Antidoping FMSI, Rome, Italy
- REDs - Research and Expertise in Antidoping Sciences, ISSUL - Institute de Sciences du Sport, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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Saw YL, Boughton JR, Wroniuk FL, Mostafa ME, Pellegrinelli PJ, Calvez SA, Kaplitz AS, Perez LJ, Edwards JL, Grinias JP. Use of N-(4-aminophenyl)piperidine derivatization to improve organic acid detection with supercritical fluid chromatography-mass spectrometry. J Sep Sci 2023; 46:e2300343. [PMID: 37603367 DOI: 10.1002/jssc.202300343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
Abstract
The analysis of organic acids in complex mixtures by LC-MS can often prove challenging, especially due to the poor sensitivity of negative ionization mode required for detection of these compounds in their native (i.e., underivatized or untagged) form. These compounds have also been difficult to measure using supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC)-MS, a technique of growing importance for metabolomic analysis, with similar limitations based on negative ionization. In this report, the use of a high proton affinity N-(4-aminophenyl)piperidine derivatization tag is explored for the improvement of organic acid detection by SFC-MS. Four organic acids (lactic, succinic, malic, and citric acids) with varying numbers of carboxylate groups were derivatized with N-(4-aminophenyl)piperidine to achieve detection limits down to 0.5 ppb, with overall improvements in detection limit ranging from 25-to-2100-fold. The effect of the derivatization group on sensitivity, which increased by at least 200-fold for compounds that were detectable in their native form, and mass spectrometric detection are also described. Preliminary investigations into the separation of these derivatized compounds identified multiple stationary phases that could be used for complete separation of all four compounds by SFC. This derivatization technique provides an improved approach for the analysis of organic acids by SFC-MS, especially for those that are undetectable in their native form.
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- Yih Ling Saw
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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Meyer M, Montero L, Meckelmann SW, Schmitz OJ. Comparative study for analysis of carbohydrates in biological samples. Anal Bioanal Chem 2022; 414:2117-2130. [PMID: 34928405 PMCID: PMC8821481 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03845-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 12/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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This work presents a comparative study for the analysis of carbohydrates for four common chromatographic methods, each coupled to mass spectrometry. Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC), reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RP-LC) and gas chromatography (GC) with detection by triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (QqQ-MS) are compared. It is shown that gas chromatography and reversed-phase liquid chromatography, each after derivatisation, are superior to the other two methods in terms of separation performance. Furthermore, comparing the different working modes of the mass spectrometer, it can be determined that a targeted analysis, i.e. moving from full scan to single ion monitoring (SIM) and multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), results in an improvement in the sensitivity as well as the repeatability of the method, which has deficiencies especially in the analysis using HILIC. Overall, RP-LC-MS in MRM after derivatisation with 1-phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (PMP) proved to be the most suitable method in terms of separation performance, sensitivity and repeatability for the analysis of monosaccharides. Detection limits in the nanomolar range were achieved, which corresponds to a mass concentration in the low µg/L range. The applicability of this method to different biological samples was investigated with various herbal liquors, pectins and a human glycoprotein.
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- Martin Meyer
- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
- Teaching and Research Center for Separation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
- Teaching and Research Center for Separation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
- Teaching and Research Center for Separation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Applied Analytical Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany.
- Teaching and Research Center for Separation, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitaetsstrasse 5, 45141, Essen, Germany.
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Salazar C, Jones MD, Isaac G, Shulaev V. Comprehensive Analysis of Plant Lipids Using Sub-2-μm Particle CO 2-Based Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2396:187-195. [PMID: 34786684 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1822-6_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Lipids play an essential role in plants, and historically manipulating their levels and composition has been an important target for metabolic engineering. A variety of analytical techniques, many based on mass spectrometry, have been utilized for lipid profiling, but the analysis of complex lipid mixtures still poses significant analytical challenges. Recent advances in technology have revived the supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) as a promising separation technique for lipid analysis. Utilization of sub-2-μm particle columns improves the separation efficiency and robustness of the SFC systems. The combination of SFC with sub-2-μm particle separation, commonly referred as ultra-performance convergence chromatography, has been successfully used for separation of both polar and neutral lipids. In this chapter, we present a simple method for lipid class separation using Sub-2-μm particle CO2-based chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. The supercritical fluid chromatography methodology is flexible and can be altered to provide greater retention and separation of lipid classes or individual lipids within class.
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- Carolina Salazar
- Department of Biological Sciences and Advanced Environmental Research Institute, College of Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Advanced Environmental Research Institute, College of Science, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.
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Jambo H, Dispas A, Hubert C, Lecomte F, Ziemons É, Hubert P. Generic SFC-MS methodology for the quality control of vitamin D 3 oily formulations. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2021; 209:114492. [PMID: 34864591 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.114492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Revised: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Vitamin D3 is a key micronutrient whose intakes are inadequate for most populations worldwide. Supplementation with medicines or food supplements is commonly prescribed to correct this imbalance and the quality of these products must be ensured. In this context, a generic methodology for the assay of vitamin D3 in oily formulations is proposed using supercritical fluid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (SFC-MS). It is in line with green analytical chemistry principles and combines the use of i) a fast and robust analytical method (4.0 min analysis time) ii) an easy sample preparation compatible with high throughput analysis ("dilute-and-shoot" approach) and iii) a relevant control strategy. Seventeen products from multiple manufacturers and encompassing a large content range were evaluated in this study. They were classified in four groups to streamline their processing considering the use of a matrix-matched calibration procedure. Matrix effect was thoroughly studied and was found to be low (99-106%), stable intra/inter-series and comparable between the different groups and types of matrices. The implemented control strategy was based on a three-level system suitability tests (SST). Level 1 SST: resolution of the critical pair that was above 1.5 for all analysis series. Level 2 SST: evaluation of the adequacy of the calibration for a QC sample in terms of recovery that was between 97% and 104% with a variability between 1% and 2%. Level 3 SST: method trueness that was between 95% and 102%. Sample analysis highlighted differences in types of products and dosage forms. This is the first study to propose a complete strategy for the quality control of vitamin D3 oily formulations and should prove useful in QC laboratories.
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- Hugues Jambo
- University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Liège, Belgium.
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- University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Liège, Belgium; University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Laboratory for the Analysis of Medicines, Liège, Belgium
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- University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Liège, Belgium
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- University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Liège, Belgium
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- University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Liège, Belgium
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- University of Liège (ULiège), CIRM, Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry, Liège, Belgium
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Zwerger M, Ganzera M. Analysis of boswellic acids in dietary supplements containing Indian frankincense (Boswellia serrata) by Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. J Pharm Biomed Anal 2021; 201:114106. [PMID: 33962180 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2021.114106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2021] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Boswellic acids, a class of triterpenes, are the bioactive constituents in Indian frankincense, an herbal drug with pronounced anti-inflammatory activity. In this study their separation and quantification in B. serrata extracts is reported for the first time by using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. Under optimized conditions, i.e. a Viridis HSS C18 SB column and carbon dioxide, methanol, acetonitrile and ammonium hydroxide as mobile phase, six boswellic acids could be separated in under 6 min. The assay fulfilled all validation criteria with coefficients of determination higher than 0.999, a wide linear range (30-1000 μg/mL), recovery rates from 97.1-103.0 %, excellent precision, and detection limits typical for SFC with UV-detection (≤ 5.5 μg/mL). The method could easily be hyphenated to mass spectrometry, which was helpful to tentatively assign further compounds (mainly derivatives of tirucallic acid) and to increase the assay's sensitivity. Its practical applicability was confirmed by analyzing several commercial products, which mainly contained β-boswellic acid as dominant triterpene, yet in extremely variable amounts ranging from 0.9 to 16.9 %.
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- Michael Zwerger
- Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy, Center for Molecular Biosciences (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy, Center for Molecular Biosciences (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Pan J, Tang Y, Shen Z, Du Z. Development of supercritical fluid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry method for characterization of a nonionic surfactant and comparison with liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry method. J Mass Spectrom 2020; 55:e4499. [PMID: 31919971 DOI: 10.1002/jms.4499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2019] [Revised: 01/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The supercritical fluid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (SFC-MS) method and liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method were developed for the separation and characterization of poly (ethylene oxide) methyl glucose sesquistearate (PEO-Glu-sesquistearate). The products of PEO-Glu-sesquistearate are composed of complex oligomers. The relationship between molecular structure of these oligomers and chromatographic retention behavior in both SFC and LC were discussed and compared. As compared with LC, hydrophobic moieties of compounds favor the fast elution in SFC. The different series can be better separated by LC, while the homologues compounds in same series can be better separated by SFC, and SFC-MS provided more comprehensive structural information. Different series such as PEO-distearate, PEO-stearate, PEO, PEO-Glu-tetrastearate, PEO-Glu-tristearate, PEO-Glu-distearate, PEO-Glu-stearate, and PEO-Glu were identified by MS/MS.
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- Jinheng Pan
- College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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- College of Science, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmentally Harmful Chemical Analysis, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China
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Desfontaine V, Losacco GL, Gagnebin Y, Pezzatti J, Farrell WP, González-Ruiz V, Rudaz S, Veuthey JL, Guillarme D. Applicability of supercritical fluid chromatography - mass spectrometry to metabolomics. I - Optimization of separation conditions for the simultaneous analysis of hydrophilic and lipophilic substances. J Chromatogr A 2018; 1562:96-107. [PMID: 29861304 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2018.05.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Revised: 05/20/2018] [Accepted: 05/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the suitability of SFC-MS for the analysis of a wide range of compounds including lipophilic and highly hydrophilic substances (log P values comprised between -6 and 11), for its potential application toward human metabolomics. For this purpose, a generic unified chromatography gradient from 2 to 100% organic modifier in CO2 was systematically applied. In terms of chemistry, the best stationary phases for this application were found to be the Agilent Poroshell HILIC (bare silica) and Macherey-Nagel Nucleoshell HILIC (silica bonded with a zwitterionic ligand). To avoid system overpressure at very high organic modifier proportion, columns of 100 × 3 mm I.D. packed with sub-3 μm superficially porous particles were selected. In terms of organic modifier, a mixture of 95% MeOH and 5% water was selected, with 50 mM ammonium formate and 1 mM ammonium fluoride, to afford good solubility of analytes in the mobile phase, limited retention for the most hydrophilic metabolites and suitable peak shapes of ionizable species. A sample diluent containing 50%ACN/50% water was employed as injection solvent. These conditions were applied to a representative set of metabolites belonging to nucleosides, nucleotides, small organic acids, small bases, sulfated/sulfonated metabolites, poly-alcohols, lipid related substances, quaternary ammonium metabolites, phosphate-based substances, carbohydrates and amino acids. Among all these metabolites, 65% of the compounds were adequately analyzed with excellent peak shape, 23% provided distorted peak shapes, while only 12% were not detected (mostly metabolites having several phosphate or several carboxylic acid groups).
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- Vincent Desfontaine
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Pfizer, Inc., Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, La Jolla Laboratories, 10770 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, CMU - Rue Michel Servet 1, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland.
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Tarafder A. Designs and methods for interfacing SFC with MS. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2018; 1091:1-13. [PMID: 29803196 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2018.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2018] [Revised: 05/02/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Hyphenating SFC with MS is now routinely performed in analytical laboratories. Major instrument providers supply commercial solutions for coupling SFC and MS, which has facilitated wider adoption of the technology. The current status, however, could be achieved based on the work done by many researchers over decades. Interfacing SFC with MS posed some unique challenges, compared to interfacing MS with LC or GC, demanding special solutions. Several interface designs were tried and tested over the years before suitable solutions could be detected. Additional measures, such as (a) mixing SFC mobile-phase with an additional liquid solvent at the column outlet, and (b) heating the interfacing device, had to be adopted to address some specific challenges. Although such modifications and measures look diverse, there is one factor that drove most of them - compressibility of SFC mobile-phase. There are two objectives of this review - (1) to compile various insights which were reported on describing and optimizing SFC-MS interfacing processes, and (2) to link these insights with the fundamental issue of solvent compressibility.
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Haglind A, Hedeland M, Arvidsson T, Pettersson CE. Major signal suppression from metal ion clusters in SFC/ESI-MS - Cause and effects. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2018; 1084:96-105. [PMID: 29579734 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2018.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 02/23/2018] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The widening application area of SFC-MS with polar analytes and water-containing samples facilitates the use of quick and simple sample preparation techniques such as "dilute and shoot" and protein precipitation. This has also introduced new polar interfering components such as alkali metal ions naturally abundant in e.g. blood plasma and urine, which have shown to be retained using screening conditions in SFC/ESI-TOF-MS and causing areas of major ion suppression. Analytes co-eluting with these clusters will have a decreased signal intensity, which might have a major effect on both quantification and identification. When investigating the composition of the alkali metal clusters using accurate mass and isotopic pattern, it could be concluded that they were previously not described in the literature. Using NaCl and KCl standards and different chromatographic conditions, varying e.g. column and modifier, the clusters proved to be formed from the alkali metal ions in combination with the alcohol modifier and make-up solvent. Their compositions were [(XOCH3)n + X]+, [(XOH)n + X]+, [(X2CO3)n + X]+ and [(XOOCOCH3)n + X]+ for X = Na+ or K+ in ESI+. In ESI-, the clusters depended more on modifier, with [(XCl)n + Cl]- and [(XOCH3)n + OCH3]- mainly formed in pure methanol and [(XOOCH)n + OOCH]- when 20 mM NH4Fa was added. To prevent the formation of the clusters by avoiding methanol as modifier might be difficult, as this is a widely used modifier providing good solubility when analyzing polar compounds in SFC. A sample preparation with e.g. LLE would remove the alkali ions, however also introducing a time consuming and discriminating step into the method. Since the alkali metal ions were retained and affected by chromatographic adjustments as e.g. mobile phase modifications, a way to avoid them could therefore be chromatographic tuning, when analyzing samples containing them.
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- Alfred Haglind
- Division of Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Uppsala University, BMC Box 574, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Division of Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Uppsala University, BMC Box 574, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden; National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Dept. of Chemistry, Environment and Feed Hygiene, SE-751 89 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Division of Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Uppsala University, BMC Box 574, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden; Medical Products Agency, Box 26, SE-751 03 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Division of Analytical Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Uppsala University, BMC Box 574, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden
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