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Chiral Discrimination of DL-Amino Acids by Trapped Ion Mobility Spectrometry after Derivatization with (+)-1-(9-Fluorenyl)ethyl Chloroformate

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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 91, 期 5, 页码 3277-3285

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b03661

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  1. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [RYC-2013-12688, CTQ2016-76368-P]
  2. Comunidad of Madrid (Spain)
  3. FEDER Program (AVANSECAL-CM) [S2013/ABI-3028]
  4. University of Alcala

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A novel analytical method based on hybrid trapped ion mobility spectrometry-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TIMS-TOFMS) has been developed to achieve fast enantiomeric separation of amino acids (AAs). Resolution of chiral AAs was achieved by forming diastereomers through derivatization with the chiral agent (+)-1-(9-fluorenyl)ethyl chloroformate (FLEC), avoiding the use of reference compounds. Electrospray ionization (ESI) in positive mode yielded sodiated FLEC-AAs ions of which the diastereomers could be separated by TIMS. The effect of other alkali metal ions (such as Li and K) on the enantioselectivity was studied, but chiral discrimination was only observed for Na. TIMS conditions, including voltage ramp, ramp time, and accumulation time were optimized for each AA, and collision cross sections (CCSs) were determined for all diastereomers. The migration order of the DL enantiomers was found to be dependent on the structure of the AA. The resulting TIMS resolution (K0/Delta K0) for the FLEC-AA diastereomers on average was 115, requiring a mobility (K0) difference of about 0.009 cm(2)/(V s) to achieve 50%-valley separation. From the 21 AAs studied, enantiomer separation was achieved for 17 AAs with mobility differences ranging from 0.009 for lysine up to 0.061 cm(2)/(V s) for asparagine. Moreover, the presented methodology provided mutual separation of various AAs, allowing chiral analysis of multiple AAs simultaneously which may be challenging with previous enantioselective IMS approaches. It appeared possible to fully resolve all studied DL-AAs using three distinct TIMS methods, resulting in a total MS run time of about 3 min (1 min per method) and a total analysis time (including derivatization) of less than 15 min. The method demonstrated capable to determine enantiomeric ratios down to 2.5% with detection limits for the D enantiomers in the nanomolar range. This new TIMS-based methodology opens up possibilities for easy and fast analysis of AA enantiomers.

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