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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 997, Issue -, Pages 142-145Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2015.06.006
Keywords
Tobacco alkaloids; Reversed-phase HPLC; Quantitative method; Alicotiana benthamiana; Alkaline mobile phase
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A reversed-phase HPLC-UV method was developed, optimized, and validated for the separation and quantitation of six target alkaloids from leaves of Nicotiana species (nicotine, nornicotine, anatabine, anabasine, myosmine, and cotinine). A bidentate reversed-phase C18 column was used as stationary phase and an alkaline ammonium formate buffer and acetonitrile as mobile phase. The alkaloids were well separated in a short run time of 13 min with mobile phase pH 10.5 and a small gradient of 9-13% acetonitrile, and detected using UV at 260 nm. Peak parameters were acceptable for all six closely related alkaloids. The proposed method has enough linearity with correlation coefficient >0.999 within the investigated range for all tested alkaloids. Satisfactory precision was achieved for both intra- and inter-day assay, with RSD less than 2% for all alkaloid standards. Reproducibility was also within the acceptable range of RSD <2%. Limit of detection was 1.6 mu g/mL for nicotine and below 1 mu g/mL for all other alkaloids. The limit of quantification was 2.8 and 4.8 mu g/mL for nomicotine and nicotine respectively, and below 2 mu g/mL for all other alkaloids. The method was successfully applied for simultaneous analysis of alkaloids in leaves of Nicotiana benthamiana. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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