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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY
卷 316, 期 -, 页码 40-46出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2012.01.003
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Dissociative protonation; Proton transfer; Ion-neutral complex; Drug metabolite; Metabolite identification; Electrospray mass spectrometry
Identification of drug metabolites by mass spectrometry plays an indispensable role in drug discovery and development. As important pharmacophores, the heterocyclic cores are complicated in protonation especially when substituted with various functional groups. Tolmetin, naratriptan and lansoprazole selected in this study are derivatives of pyrrole, indole and benzimidazole, respectively. In the electrospray mass spectrometry of these heterocyclic drugs and their metabolites, fragmentations through deacylation, dealkylation, desulfoxidation or desulfonation are the prominent dissociation reactions of the protonated molecules. The thermodynamically most favorable sites of protonation for these molecules are determined based on proton affinities of pertinent substructures; however, it has been demonstrated that the major fragmentation is not induced by protonation at these sites. Instead, it is required that the proton be transferred to the carbon positions on the heterocyclic cores to which the acyl, alkyl, sulfoxide or sulfone group is attached. These positions are described as the dissociative protonation sites. It is shown again that the proton affinity at the dissociative site is lower than that at many other positions in the molecules, and proton transfer is required to trigger the fragmentation. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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