M. Careri et al., IDENTIFICATION OF VITAMIN-A, VITAMIN-D AND VITAMIN-E BY PARTICLE-BEAMLIQUID-CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS-SPECTROMETRY, Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, 351(8), 1995, pp. 768-776
Particle beam (PB) high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)-mass
spectrometry (MS) has been studied to investigate its suitability for
the analysis of fat-soluble vitamins, as an example of thermally labil
e substances. The PB LC-MS system has been used to detect and identify
vitamins A, D and E in foods and multi-vitamin preparations. The qual
itative performance of the PB interface has been evaluated by an exami
nation of the working parameters. A rapid elution of the vitamins was
obtained on a C8 reversed-phase column using an aqueous methanol mobil
e phase. Analyses have been carried out using both, electron (EI) and
chemical(CI) ionization. Positive and negative-ion CI spectra of the c
ompounds are discussed. When PB-MS conditions are optimized, the detec
tion limits for the fat-soluble vitamins tested have been typically in
the 0.6-25 ng range when using the selected-ion monitoring technique.