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Title: Direct Combination of Single Drop Microextraction with APMALDIMS


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Direct Combination of Single Drop Microextraction
with AP-MALDI-MS
for
Rapid Screening of Low Molecular Drugs from Urine
samples
and
Quantitative Determination of Cationic
Surfactants from River and Municipal Waste Water
466.7
  • Kamlesh Shrivas and Hui-Fen Wu
  • Department of Chemistry,
  • National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, 804,
    Taiwan
  • Corresponding author. Phone 886-7-5252000-3955.
  • Fax 886-7-525-3908.
  • E-mail hwu_at_mail.nsysu.edu.tw.

368.5
284.5
304.3
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Rapid Screening of Low Molecular Drugs from Urine
samples
  • Present work reports the development of a new
    analytical procedure for simple and rapid
    screening of low molecular weight drugs (lt500
    Da.) from human urine sample by atmospheric
    pressure-matrix assisted laser desorption/ionizati
    on mass spectrometry (AP-MALDI/MS) combined with
    single drop micro extraction (SDME).
  • The success of the proposed work was due to use
    of methyltrioctyl ammonium bromide (MTOAC) as
    additives to avoid signal to noise ratio of the
    matrix ions
  • Also, SDME aided in the separation and
    enrichment of analytes from urine sample prior to
    AP-MALDI/MS analysis. This results in obtaining
    clean spectra and gain good sensitivity of the
    method

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  • The RSD and LOD of the method in urine sample
    were 8.2-14 and 0.3-1.6 µM respectively
  • SDME was compared with liquid-liquid extraction
    (LLE) and hollow fiber-liquid phase
    microextraction technique to know compatibility
    of the present method in the extraction of drugs
    from urine sample.
  • Thus, MTOAC as matrix ion signal suppressor and
    SDME as analyte separating devise in the
    AP-MALDI/MS analysis are shown to provide
    valuable information with simple, low cost and
    rapid screening of low molecular weight drugs
    from human urine sample.

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  • Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation mass
    spectrometry (MALDI/MS) is widely applied in the
    field of protein, oligosachharides, polymers and
    drug analysis. For higher molecular analysis of
    organic compounds by MALDI/MS is very successful
    may be due signal to noise ratio was negligible.
  • However, analysis of low molecular compounds
    (lt500 Da) is still challenge for analytical
    chemist, because matrix noise signals usually
    complicate in interpenetration of sample signals
    in the lower molecular range
  • The matrix organic compounds in use have low
    molecular lt 300 Da, due to this, they act as
    their own matrix during laser radiation and
    producing many matrix ions in mass spectra.

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  • In the present study, the background signal
    caused by the CHCA ions and matrices present in
    the sample was alleviated by the simultaneous use
    of two approaches.
  • MTOAC as additive to reduce the matrix ion
    signal is the first and SDME was combined to
    separate and preconcentrate the drugs from human
    urine earlier to AP-MALDI/MS analysis being the
    second.
  • The limit of detection and precision of the
    method in urine sample was investigated for the
    validity of the proposed method.

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Diagram for SDME
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INSTRUMENT The analyses of all drugs were
carried on Finnigan LCQ ion trap mass
spectrometer (Thermoquest Inc., San Jose, CA,
USA) equipped with an AP-MALDI/MS source. Mass
spectra were obtained in the positive ion mode
with laser power attenuated at 60 at 10 Hz.
Other operating conditions capillary temperature
250 oC, capillary voltage 40 V, tube lens offset
70 V and ion injection time 1070 ms,
respectively. The mass spectrometer was equipped
with nitrogen laser of 337 nm. All spectra were
scanning for 1 min in the mass range of 100-500
Da.
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AP-MALDI/MS analysis of drugs assisted with SDME
  • CHCA is widely used as matrix in the MALDI-MS
    analysis for peptides and drug due to its
    homogenous crystal formation with analytes. Also,
    it is good absorber and transfer of laser energy
    to analytes through ionization process
  • But actual problem was associated during of
    analysis of lower mass organic compounds (lt500
    Da.).

Figure 1 shows AP-MALDI-MS spectra of all drugs,
nortriptyline (NT), amitriptyline (AT),
imipramine (IP), trimeprazine (TM) and quinine
(QN) at m/z 264.5 (NTH), 278.1 (ATH), 281.2
(IPH), and 325.4 (QNH), prior to SDME at CHCA
concentration of 0.028 M (without MTOAC).
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ATH
 
278.1
Abundance
QNH
NTH
325.4
IPH
264.5
2 CHCA-CO2H
2 CHCAH
TM
378.9
281.3
CHCA-H2OH
CHCAH
298.2
190.4
335.4
172.5.
m/z
Figure 1. AP-MALDI/MS spectra of spiked drugs (11
µM) from deionized water using SDME at CHCA
concentration of 0.026 M.
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  • Figure 1, also represents the AP-MALDI/MS
    spectra of matrix ions observed at m/z 172.5
    (CHCA-H2OH), 190.4 (CHCAH), 335.4
    (2CHCA-CO2H) and 378.9 (2CHCAH).
  • These are the prominent peaks, which could
    create confusion in the identification of analyts
    in the low-mass range analysis. These spectra
    show the domination of the matrix signal over
    analyte signals.
  • In order to suppress the signals of matrix ions
    and to obtain clean spectra of the drugs of
    interest, MTOAC was added
  • Figures 2 (a) to 2 (c) show the AP-MALDI/MS
    spectra of drugs after applying different molar
    concentration ratio of CHCA/ MTOAC from 100001
    to 7001, prior to separation of drugs by the
    SDME.

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368.5
700000
350000
379.1
278.1
281.1
298.1
325.5
172.1
264.3
190.3
100000
300
500
150
m/z
Abundance
368.5
120000
600000
278.1
379.1
281.1
325.5
264.3
298.1
172.1
190.3
100000
300
150
500
m/z
368.5
120000
600000
278.1
281.1
325.5
264.3
298.1
100000
500
150
300
m/z
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  • Figure 2 (a) displays the intense peak of
    surfactant produced at m/z 368.5 (MTAO) by
    losing Cl- ion from MTOAC.
  • It was observed that the proper fixing of
    CHCA/MTOAC concentration ratio in AP-MALDI/MS
    analysis of drugs before to SDME was very
    significant.
  • The use of higher concentration of MTOAC may
    cause suppression of drug signal peak (not shown)
    and lower concentration could cause more signal
    to noise ratio by the matrix (CHCA) as shown in
    figure 2 (a) and 2 (b).
  • The optimum ratio of CHCA/MTOAC for obtaining
    clean spectra for the determination of drugs
    prior to SDME was 7001, shown in figure 2 (c).
    Hence, this optimum ratio of CHCA/MTOAC was used
    for further investigations.

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Optimization of Single Drop Microextraction
Extraction efficiency of each drug was observed
by the abundance of signal of three replicate
analyses. The results obtained for optimization
of extraction parameters are given in table 1.
Optimum extraction efficiency of drugs were
obtained at the following conditions xylene as
extracting solvent, stirring speed 240 rpm,
extraction time 10 min, exposure volume of
acceptor phase 1.0 µL and salt addition of 10
at room temperature.
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APPLICATION
  • The precision of the proposed method was checked
    by replicate analysis (n6) of 3.5 µM of drugs
    in urine sample at the optimized condition of
    SDME. The RSD of the method was lt 12.

The LOD values obtained for drugs in urine were
found from 0.3-1.6 and 11-18 µM with and without
use of MTOAC respectively are given in table 2.
10-43 folds of improvements of LOD were obtained
when the MTOAC was used as additive to suppress
the peaks of matrices ions.
  • This results showing that SDME can also useful
    excluding interference caused by the matrices in
    the urine samples. Also, 13-52 folds enrichment
    factors were calculated at concentration of 1.6
    µM were spiked in the urine samples

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  • Comparision of microextraction techniques
  • The LOD values for the SDME, HF-LPME and LLE
    were 0.3-1.6, 0.3-2.3 and 11-23 µM, respectively.
  • Compared to the customary LLE method, the
    current SDME offers better sensitivity.
  • The limit of detection acquired by the present
    method was as good as the HF-LPME.
  • However, SDME was recognized as simple and
    faster than HF-LPME may be due to the direct
    suspending of organic solvent in the tip of
    syringe for extraction of analytes from aqueous
    phase, instead of placing solvent in to hollow
    fiber (extra steps were involved cleaning of
    hollow fiber before placing solvent).

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  • CONCLUSION
  • This method is proved to be simple and rapid
    method for screening of low molecular drugs from
    urine sample.
  • The background signal to noise ratio is very
    negligible when MTOAC used as additives.
  • Separation and preconcentration excludes most of
    the interference during the analysis of drugs
    from urine sample by SDME. Both the approach
    helped in reducing matrix interferences.
  • This method could act as model for monitoring
    low molecular drugs in biological samples, urine
    and plasma.

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Quantitative Determination of Cationic
Surfactants from River and Municipal Waste Water
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Summary of the proposed work
  • Method was based on the extraction of CS from
    aqueous sample into 2 µL of organic solvent by
    single drop micro extraction (SDME).
  • Solvent Octanol
  • Stirring speed 200 rpm
  • Extraction time 7 min
  • Acceptor phase volume 0.8 µL
  • No salt addition
  • At room temperature
  • Then, it was analyzed by AP-MALDI-MS

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  • The enrichment factor for CS was found to be
    40-64 folds for 7 min of extraction at room
    temperature. The linearity and limit of detection
    (LOD) of the method were 50-1500 and 10 µg/L,
    respectively.
  • The relative recoveries in river and municipal
    waste water were found to be 95.2 to 105 and
    90.0 to 100 respectively and this shows good
    reliability of the method.
  • The enrichment and LOD values obtained by SDME
    were compared with LLE and HF-LPME, and found
    SDME is compatible with HF-LPME and much better
    than traditional LLE.

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INTRODUCTION
Cationic surfactants (CS) are surface-active
compounds with at least one hydrophobic alkyl
chain and a hydrophilic group carrying a positive
charge. CS are positively charged in aqueous
solutions. A positively charged quaternary
nitrogen atom characterizes the quaternary
ammonium compounds.
Hydrophobic (water repelling)
Hydrophilic (water loving)
CH3
N
H3C
CH3
CH3
Head
Tail
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  • CS are used
  • Hair rinsers Textile softener
  • Preservatives or antiseptic agents in industrial
    and commercial products.
  • Due to their ability to stabilize emulsions and
    their antibacterial properties, surfactants used
    widely in cosmetics, drugs and microbiocides.
  • CS are also widely used in the manufacture of
    commodity samples, i.e. detergents, soaps,
    shampoo, etc. as surface cleaning agents

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Toxicities of CS
  • CS are toxic to aquatic invertebrates as
    indicated by study of Belanger et. al.
  • The few available absorption studies conducted
    with CS indicate that absorption occurs in small
    amounts through the skin.
  • CS also can causes, i.e. nausea, vomiting,
    diarrhea, dermal necrosis, lung complications,
    hypotension, corneal damage.

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  • The most common method to determine CS
  • Spectrophotometry
  • High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
  • Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
    (ESI-MS)
  • Capillary electrophoresis (CE)
  • Ion pair chromatography (IC)

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Sample preconcentration and extraction of analytes
Liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) is one of the old
conventional methods used for extraction of
analytes from various matrices.
Drawbacks more solvent consumption, tedious,
time consuming and exposure of toxic chemicals
during operation.
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  • Application of Matrix-assisted laser desorption
    /ionization-mass spectrometry
  • Powerful sensitive technique Proteins, nucleic
    acid, drugs and synthetic polymers.
  • Major advantages of the technique simplicity of
    usage, high sensitivity and high sample
    throughput.
  • Quantitative analysis of different analytes
    using internal standard.
  • The properties of internal standard should be
    chemically similar to the analyte, completely
    resolved from the analyte peak and internal
    standard should be near to the sample of analyte.

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Atmospheric pressure-matrix assisted laser
desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
(AP-MALDI/MS) All mass spectra were collected in
positive ion mode by using an AP-MALDI ion source
(Mass Tech Inc., Columbia, MD, USA) in
conjunction with an ion trap mass spectrometer
(Thermo Finnigan LCQ-Advantage, San Jose, CA,
USA). Analytes were irradiated with a nitrogen
laser at 337 nm. Bombarding of laser beam on
target plate was fixed for 1 min at 1.8 kV for
all spectra and mass range was set at 100-600 Da.
The laser power was operated at 10 Hz. The
voltage of capillary and tube lens offset was 40
V and 70 V, respectively. The temperature of
capillary was constant at 250 oC. Mass spectra
were obtained by summing all individual shots.
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Simultaneously quantitative analysis of cationic
surfactant mixtures by AP-MALDI mass spectrometry
  • MALDI/MS is difficult in the analysis for low
    molecular weight compounds (MW lt 500 Da). This is
    due to the interference of matrix ions.
  • In this study, the determination of mixtures of
    CS including CTAB, CPC and MTOAC from water
    samples was easily performed since the matrix
    ions of CHCA were suppressed in the presence of
    the surfactants.

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M-Br- of TOAB (IS)
466.7
Figure 8
M-Cl- of MTOAC
Abundance
368.5
M-Cl- of CPC
M-Br- of CTAB
284.5
304.3
m/z
Figure 4 presents the SDME/AP-MALDI mass spectra
of CS. The ions shown at m/z 284.5, 304.3,
368.5 and 466.7 were assigned as M-Br- of
CTAB, M-Cl-of CPC, M-Cl- of MTOAC and
M-Br-of TOAB, respectively. These ions were
produced by elimination of a halogen ion (Br -,
Cl -) from the molecular ion.
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  •  
  • Optimization of extraction parameters for
    single drop micro extraction (SDME)
  • Efficient extraction of CS into organic
    acceptor phase (organic solvent) was obtained by
    optimizing sampling conditions.
  • Extraction solvent, stirring speed of sample,
    extraction time, acceptor phase volume and salt
    addition.
  • The extraction efficiency was based on the
    abundance of each analyte for three replicate
    analyses.

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Solvents



 

 
 
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Stirring speed
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Extraction time
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Acceptor phase
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Salt concentration
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Enrichment factors, calibration curve and
precision
  • Enrichment factor is ratio of concentration
    between organic solvent and aqueous phase used
    for extraction. Enrichment factors were
    determined to know extraction efficiency of CS
    at optimal conditions.
  • Signal intensity of calibration and internal
    standards were recorded at positive ion mode in
    AP-MALDI-MS. The ratio of signal intensity of
    analyte to internal standard were calculated and
    used to draw calibration curve.

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  • The LOD were calculated as the amount of
    compound that would still give signal three times
    than the noise. The LOD for all surfactants were
    found to be 10 µg /L.
  • For quantitative AP-MALDI/MS analysis of CS, an
    internal standard was required to improve
    reproducibility of the results.
  • The precision of the method was expressed as the
    relative standard deviation (RSD) of replicate
    analyses (n6), at concentration of 1 mg/L
    carried out within working day.

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Application
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  • Relative recoveries were estimated as intensity
    ratio of CS in matrix sample to the intensity in
    deionised water spiked of same amount of
    analytes.

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  • Table 4 displays the comparison of LODs and
    enrichment factors of SDME with HF-LPME coupling
    to AP-MALDI/MS for cationic surfactants in
    deionized water. The LODs for SDME and HF-LPME
    were 10 and 5-8 µg/L, respectively.
  • The LOD values obtained by SDME were compatible
    with the HF-LPME. The enrichment factors obtained
    by HF-LPME were 48 to 62 folds, which were
    comparable to SDME.
  • However, the SDME is more convenient and lower
    cost than the HF-LPME since no hollow fiber is
    required in the extraction processes.

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  • CONCLUSION
  • SDME combined with AP-MALDI-MS
  • proved to be a simple, rapid, and selective
    method for the simultaneous quantitative
    determination of cationic surfactants from river
    and municipal waste water.
  • Large number of water samples could be screened
    in short period of time to know exposure of these
    cationic surfactants in the environment.
  • This effort could be certainty helpful for
    quality control of pollution in different
    compartments of the environment.
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