title: Simultaneous chiral determination of methamphetamine and its metabolites in urine by capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry.
abstract: A capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous chiral determination of enantiomers of methamphetamine (MA), amphetamine (AP), dimethylamphetamine (DMA) and p-hydroxymethamphetamine (pOHMA), in urine has been developed. The internal standards used were 2-phenylethylamine and 1-amino4-phenylbutane. The electrolyte was 1 M formic acid (pH 2.2). The chiral selector, which was added to the electrolyte, was a mixture of 3 mM beta-cyclodextrin and 10 mM heptakis(2,6-di-O-methyl)-beta-cyclodextrin. The detection limits were 0.03 microg ml(-1) for the enantiomers of MA and AP and 0.05 microg ml(-1) for the enantiomers of pOHMA using selected ion monitoring. In the analysis of healthy adult urine samples spiked with MA, AP and pOHMA, the precision of within-run assays (n = 4) for the migration time after correction with two internal standards were under 0.04%, and the detection yields utilizing solid phase extraction were 95-105%. This method was applicable to the analysis of urine samples of MA addicts and DMA addicts.
authors.affiliation: Forensic Science Laboratory, Ishikawa Prefectural Police Headquarters, 1-1 Kuratsuki, Kanazawa 920-8553, Japan. ip-fslab@po.sphere.ne.jp
authors.forename: Reiko
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Iio
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chinaka
authors.forename: Seishi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Nariaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: Kazuichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hayakawa
mesh_terms: D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007536:Isomerism; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D008694:Methamphetamine / Q000652:urine*; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection
chemical_list: D008694:Methamphetamine