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Qualitative determination of urinary morphine by capillary zone electrophoresis and ion trap mass spectrometry
Author(s) -
Tsai Jin L.,
Wu WenS.,
Lee HeiH.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1522-2683(20000501)21:8<1580::aid-elps1580>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - chemistry , chromatography , capillary electrophoresis , morphine , mass spectrometry , detection limit , ion trap , electrospray , analytical chemistry (journal) , medicine , pharmacology
A rapid, sensitive method for the determination of morphine and amphetamine was developed using capillary zone electrophoresis coupled with electrospray interface (ESI), ion‐trap tandem mass spectrometry (CE‐ESI‐MS 2 ). Morphine and amphetamine were separated in 20 m M ammonium acetate buffer (pH 6.6) and detected by ion‐trap mass detector in different analytical time segments (0—6.25 min for amphetamine and 6.25—12.0 min for morphine) in which the tune file for each compound was used separately. Molecular ions of morphine ( m/z 286) and amphetamine ( m/z 136) were detected at 5.77 and 6.83 min, respectively, while product ions of MS 2 for each compound ( m/z 229, 201 for morphine and m/z 119 for amphetamine) were detected almost exactly at the same time with their parent compounds. The limits of detection (LOD) for MS 2 determination were 30 and 50 ng/mL for amphetamine and morphine, respectively, with an S/N ratio of 3. For more sensitive detection of morphine, the sample was injected for a longer time ( i.e. , 80 s) and hydrodynamically transported into a CE capillary for MS detection. Morphine and its product ion appear at 0.36 and 0.39 min on the ion chromatogram, respectively, with a five‐fold increase of detection sensitivity (LOD, 10 ng/mL). The CE‐MS system thus established was further applied for forensic urine samples screened as morphine‐positive by fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA). These results indicated the feasibility of CE‐ESI‐MS 2 for confirmative testing of morphine in urine sample.