Quantitation of adrenaline and noradrenaline from human plasma by combined gas chromatography--high-resolution mass fragmentography

Journal of Chromatography
K JacobG Schwertfeger

Abstract

A gas chromatographic--high-resolution mass fragmentographic method for the simultaneous determination of adrenaline and noradrenaline from human plasma is presented. The catecholamines are separted by adsorption on alumina and converted by a selective, two-step procedure to the corresponding N-trifluoroacetyl-N-trimethylsilyl derivatives. The benzylic fragment C16H31O3Si3 (m/e 355.1568) of these derivatives is detected at a mass spectrometric resolving power of 5000. This high resolution detection was necessary to differentiate this fragment from others with the same nominal mass of 355 originating from the biological matrix and/or the bleeding from column and septum.

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