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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages 419-427Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1255/ejms.761
Keywords
sport; opioids; doping; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; fragmentation; collision-induced dissociation
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Since January 2005, the list of prohibited substances established by the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibits the opioid agent fentanyl as well as its related drugs in professional and amateur sports. Fast, reliable and robust analytical assays are required that allow the sensitive determination of these compounds or respective metabolites in human urine and liquid chromatography interfaced to mass spectrometry has proven to be a suitable and powerful tool for drug testing for several years. A screening and confirmation method was developed that enables the identification of fentanyl, alfentanil, remifentanil and sufentanil as well as their N-dealkylated or de-esterified metabolites utilizing solid-phase extraction of a 2mL urine aliquot followed by LC-electrospray-MS/MS analysis. The procedure was validated in terms of recovery (95.8-104.9%), lower limit of detection (0.5 ng mL(-1)), specificity and interday precision (3.9-19.8%) for the four opioid drugs and the metabolic product norfentanyl. In addition, the mass spectrometric behavior of fentanyl after electrospray ionization and collision-induced dissociation was studied by synthesis and analysis of structurally related compounds and dissociation pathways were proposed allowing the characterization of target analytes and corresponding metabolites.
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