scholarly journals New Developments in Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Micropollutants

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoraida Sosa-Ferrera ◽  
Cristina Mahugo-Santana ◽  
José Juan Santana-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Flame Retardants ◽  
Matrix Effects ◽  
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Endocrine Disrupting

The combination of liquid chromatography (LC) with mass spectrometry (MS) in the environmental field has appeared as a valuable tool for the determination of micropollutants. Several groups of compounds have been considered as particularly relevant (e.g., pharmaceuticals, hormones and other endocrine-disrupting, personal care products and their metabolites, flame retardants, surfactants, and plasticizers, among others) since the same ones are continuously being released in the environment mainly as a result of the manufacturing processes, the disposal of unused or expired products, and the excreta. Because these micropollutants are not completely removed in the environment, very specific and sensitive analytical procedures are needed for their identification and quantification. High performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) (or LC-MS2) and especially time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF/MS), has allowed that many environmental contaminants that are highly polar or nonvolatile or have a high molecular weight to be analyzed or identified. In this work we present an overview focused on the developments of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry applied to the analysis of the main classes of micropollutants in aqueous and solid environmental samples. Various aspects of methodologies based on these techniques, including sample preparation (extraction/preconcentration) and matrix effects, are discussed.

scholarly journals A HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY METHOD DEVELOPMENT FOR THE QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF ENALAPRIL MALEATE FROM CACO-2 CELL MONOLAYERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Liliya Logoyda
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
High Performance Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
Formic Acid ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Enalapril Maleate ◽  
Cell Monolayers ◽  
Chromatography Mass Spectrometry

Objective: A simple, rapid high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (HPLC MS/MS) method was developed for the determination of enalapril maleate from confluent Caco-2 monolayers and aqueous solution.Methods: Chromatography was achieved on Discovery C18, 50×2.1 mm, 5 μm column. Samples were chromatographed in a gradient mode (eluent A [acetonitrile-water-formic acid, 5: 95:0.1 v/v] and eluent B [acetonitrile-formic acid, 100:0.1 v/v]). The initial content of the eluent B is 0%, which increases linearly by 1.0 min to 100% and 1.01 min returns to the initial 0%. The mobile phase was delivered at a flow rate of 0.4 ml/min into the mass spectrometer ESI chamber. The sample volume was 5 μl.Results: Under these conditions, enalapril maleate was eluted at 1.52 min. According to the Caco-2 test results, enalapril showed low permeability. It should be noted that the recovery value for enalapril is 100.62 %. Low in vitro permeability data for enalapril are in good agreement with the literature data.Conclusion: From results of the analysis, it can be concluded that developed method is simple and rapid for determination of enalapril maleate from confluent Caco-2 monolayers and aqueous solution. Acquired results demonstrate that proposed strategy can be effortlessly and advantageously applied for examination of enalapril from Caco-2 cell monolayers.

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