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Large Scale Non-targeted Metabolomic Profiling of Serum by Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry UPLC-MS
Published on: March 14, 2013
A new method based on electrospray ionisation ion mobility spectrometry (ESI-IMS) for simultaneous determination of
M T Jafari1, B Rezaei1, M Javaheri1
1Department of Chemistry, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran.
Abstract:
In this work for the first time, simultaneous analysis of caffeine and theophylline was done by ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) only, without a powerful separation technique (e.g., HPLC). Ion mobility spectrometry with low cost, inexpensive maintenance and very fast analysis makes an attractive technique for the simultaneous determination of the caffeine and theophylline in foodstuff samples and biological matrices. In this study, the extraction protocol using molecular imprinted polymer-solid phase extraction (MIP-SPE) was successfully used to directly extract caffeine and theophylline from real samples. The results obtained provided the detection limits of 0.2 and 0.3μgmL(-1) for caffeine and theophylline, respectively. The linear dynamic range of about two orders of magnitude was obtained for these compounds. Also, the proposed method was used to analyse various real samples of green tea and spiked human plasma, and the obtained results confirmed the capability of ESI-IMS for simultaneous detection of caffeine and theophylline.
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