Preliminary assays to elucidate the structure of oxytetracycline's degradation products in sediments - Determination of natural tetracyclines by high-performance liquid chromatography-fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry
R. Delepee et al., Preliminary assays to elucidate the structure of oxytetracycline's degradation products in sediments - Determination of natural tetracyclines by high-performance liquid chromatography-fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, J CHROMAT B, 748(2), 2000, pp. 369-381
A very specific high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric m
ethod for the determination of natural tetracyclines was developed in order
to characterise the degradation products of oxytetracycline in sediments.
First, extraction used a clean up step with a Bond Elut Certify(R) LRC cart
ridge. A 3 mum Spherisorb(R) ODS1 column was then used with a methanol, ace
tonitrile and oxalic acid mobile phase gradient. Chromatographic resolution
in these conditions was 3.31 between oxytetracycline and tetracycline. Two
liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry methodologies based on a particle
beam and a frit fast atom bombardment interface were developed. In the firs
t approach, ionisation was performed in the negative chemical mode using me
thane as reacting gas. In the other case, glycerol-thioglycerol mixture was
used as matrix to ensure good sensitivity. MS-MS experiment was performed
to determinate oxytetracycline fragmentation pattern in the perspective of
degradation product study. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science BN. All rights reserve
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