title: Analysis of artemisinin by a packed-column supercritical fluid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation mass spectrometry technique.
abstract: A packed-column supercritical fluid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation mass spectrometry method was studied for the determination of artemisinin from Artemisia annua L. extracts. The technique does not require any kind of derivatisation prior to the analysis. All samples were simply dissolved in methanol and injected into the mobile phase. Detection was achieved by using mass spectrometry with atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation. The ionisation technique is relatively soft and provides protonated molecular ion and informative structural fragmentation for the compound. Benzophenone was used as a chromatographic standard for the determination of the analytical reproducibility. The supercritical carbon dioxide mobile phase used in the system was modified by 10% methanol. The average absolute retention time was 3.54 min with a standard deviation of 0.017 min and a relative standard deviation of 0.4% with respect to benzophenone for the procedure. The correlation coefficient was 0.998 and detection limit 370 pg on column.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Celal Bayar, Manisa, Turkey. kenan.dost@bayar.edu.tr
authors.forename: Kenan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dost
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Davidson
mesh_terms: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D019306:Artemisia / Q000737:chemistry*; D037621:Artemisinins / Q000032:analysis*; D025924:Chromatography, Supercritical Fluid; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D012717:Sesquiterpenes / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000890:Anti-Infective Agents; D037621:Artemisinins; D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D012717:Sesquiterpenes; C031327:artemisinin