title: Mass spectrometry of selected components of biological interest in green tea extracts.
abstract: Mass spectrometric methods including EIMS, FABMS, and LC/ESIMS have been surveyed as tools for the detection of catechins in extracts of green tea (Camellia sinensis). EIMS provide both molecular weight and structure information, including epimer differentiation, on compounds 1, 2, and 4 and some structural information with compounds 5 and 6. FABMS gives both molecular weight and structure information, by an retro-Diels-Alder mechanism, on all compounds. LC/ESIMS provides unambiguous molecular weight information on all compounds and some additional structural data are evident in the mass spectra of 5 and 6. LC/ESIMS is, thus, shown to be an appropriate method for the direct analysis of crude extracts of green tea. The information obtained in this work will be of importance in future studies involving identification of the components of green tea and for characterization of synthetic analogues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miketova
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Schram
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Whitney
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kerns
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Valcic
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Timmermann
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Volk
mesh_terms: D002392:Catechin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008970:Molecular Weight; D016339:Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013662:Tea / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D013662:Tea; D002392:Catechin