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Partial isotope fractionation during high-performance liquid chromatography of deuterium-labelled internal standards
B H Brown1, S J Neill, R Horgan
1Department of Botany and Microbiology, University College of Wales, SY23 3DA, Aberystwyth, UK.
Abstract:
Deuterium-labelled indole-3-acetic acid, abscisic acid and phthalimido-1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid were found to separate from the unlabelled compounds on reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). A similar separation was found for the methyl esters of these compounds on normal-phase HPLC. Such separations may lead to substantial errors when these compounds are used as internal standards for quantitation by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry/selective ion detection, unless the complete chromatographic peaks are collected.
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