Design and synthesis of a novel pre-column derivatization reagent with a 6-methoxy-4-quinolone moiety for fluorescence and tandem mass spectrometric detection and its application to chiral amino acid analysis.

Tsubasa Oyama, Eiichi Negishi, Hirohisa Onigahara, Nao Kusano, Yurika Miyoshi, Masashi Mita, Manabu Nakazono, Sumio Ohtsuki, Akio Ojida, Wolfgang Lindner, Kenji Hamase

Index: J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 116 , 71-9, (2015)

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Abstract

A new pre-column derivatization reagent with a 6-methoxy-4-quinolone (6-MOQ) moiety for amino acid analysis, 2,5-dioxopyrrolidin-1-yl(2-(6-methoxy-4-oxoquinolin-1(4H)-yl)ethyl) carbonate (6-MOQ-EtOCOOSu), was designed and synthesized. 6-MOQ is a thermo/photostable fluorophore with a high proton-affinity site and sensitive determination could be carried out by a fluorescence detector and also by an electrospray ionization mass spectrometer. Derivatization of amino acids with 6-MOQ-EtOCOOSu was completed within 1 min under mild basic conditions at room temperature. The 6-MOQ derivatives of all chiral proteinogenic amino acids were separated using the combination of three enantioselective columns, Chiralpak QN-AX, Chiralpak ZXIX(+), and KSAACSP-001S, with separation factors of higher than 1.07. The present reagent enables the sensitive determination of amino acid enantiomers, and the values of LLOD using a chiral-HPLC-MS/MS system were 0.05-50 fmol/injection.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.