Positive mode electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of bisphosphonates using dicationic and tricationic ion-pairing agents

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• 作者：Molly M. Warnke ; Zachary S. Breitbach ; Edra Dodbiba ; Jeffrey A. Crank ; Tharanga Payagala ; Pritesh Sharma ; Er ; a Wanigasekara ; Xiaotong Zhang ; Daniel W. Armstrong
• 关键词：Electrospray-ionization mass spectrometry ; Bisphosphonates ; Tricationic pairing reagent ; Ion-pairing
• 刊名：Analytica Chimica Acta
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：9 February 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：633
• 期：2
• 页码：232-237
• 全文大小：320 K

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A general method for detecting bisphosphonate drugs by ESI-MS and LC–ESI-MS as positive ions has been developed. Bisphosphonates can have multiple negative charges in solution. Tricationic ion-pairing reagents were paired with bisphosphonates to form a positively charged complex. It was clear that this facile pairing method worked. However, an appreciable presence of −1 bisphosphonate species were observed in positive mode ESI-MS (i.e. as the +2 complex with tricationic reagents). This led to an extended investigation on the use of dicationic pairing agents. The use of dicationic reagents improved the detection sensitivity for all of the bisphosphonates. Tandem mass spectrometry also improved the limits of detection for most of the bisphosphonates using both the tricationic and dicationic pairing reagents. A tricationic reagent also was used as an ion-pairing reagent in chromatography experiments. Thus the addition of a single reagent produced benefits in that it increased chromatographic retention and enhanced the ESI-MS detection of bisphosphonates.