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Free amino acids analysis by liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry in several botanicals with antioxidant character
Author(s) -
Moldoveanu Serban C.,
Zhu Jeff,
Qian Nancy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.201500162
Subject(s) - chemistry , chromatography , mass spectrometry , liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry , tandem mass spectrometry , tandem , character (mathematics) , amino acid , biochemistry , materials science , geometry , mathematics , composite material
A novel method based on liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of 19 amino acids in plant materials is described. For the analysis, the plant material is extracted with 0.1 N hydrochloric acid with internal standards present in the extraction solution. The filtered extracts are injected using no clean‐up into the liquid chromatographic system coupled with a triple‐quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer with an electrospray ionization source. The analytes are separated using ion pair chromatography on a reversed‐phase column. The detection is performed in multiple‐reaction monitoring positive‐ion mode. Quantitation is obtained using calibrations. The validated procedure has been applied for the analysis of amino acids in 18 samples of plant material including botanicals with antioxidant character. The analysis requires 16 min separation time, has excellent precision and accuracy allowing amino acid analysis in a wide range of concentrations.