Open AccessDetermination of three sweeteners in vinegars by solid phase extraction-high performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry
Author(s) -
Feng Yin,
Zhaowei Ding,
Xue Li Cao,
Jie Gao,
Deming Jiang,
Denghui Kuang,
Yanping Gu,
HE Guo-liang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sepu/chinese journal of chromatography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1872-2059
pISSN - 1000-8713
DOI - 10.3724/sp.j.1123.2011.00554
Subject(s) - chemistry , chromatography , solid phase extraction , selected reaction monitoring , ammonium acetate , mass spectrometry , tandem mass spectrometry , electrospray ionization , extraction (chemistry) , high performance liquid chromatography , detection limit , quantitative analysis (chemistry) , elution
A solid phase extraction-high performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (SPE-HPLC/ESI-MS/MS) method for the determination of 3 sweeteners (acesulfame (AK), sodium saccharin (SA), sodium cyclamate (SC)) in vinegars has been developed. The sample was diluted with acidic water, then purified and enriched with a weak anion exchange SPE column. The HPLC separation was performed on a Pursuit C18 column (150 mm x 2.0 mm, 3 microm) by gradient elution with 10 mmol/L ammonium acetate containing 0.1% (v/v) ammonia water and acetonitrile as the mobile phases. The analytes were detected by ESI--MS/MS in multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode to satisfy qualitative and quantitative detections. Good linearities (r2 > 0.99) were obtained over the range of 0.01 - 0.50 mg/L. The limits of quantification (LOQs) for SA, AK and SC were 10, 5 and 5 microg/kg, respectively. The average recoveries ranged from 72.1% to 96.8% at the spiked levels of 0.01 and 0.1 mg/L with the relative standard deviations (RSDs) less than 15%. This method is accurate, highly sensitive for qualitative and quantitative analysis of the 3 sweeteners in vinegars.