title: Study of the chemical derivatization of zearalenone and its metabolites for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of environmental samples.
abstract: This study compares different silylation procedures of zearalenone and its metabolites: alpha-zearalenol, beta-zearalenol, zearalanone, alpha-zearalanol and beta-zearalanol for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. Four silylating agents among the most frequently used to derivatize polar organic compounds were tested: N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)trifluoroacetamide (BSTFA), N-methyl-N-trimethylsilyltrifluoroacetamide (MSTFA), N,N-diethyltrimethylsilylamine (TMSDEA) and a commercial mixture of N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide, trimethylchlorosilane and N-trimethylsilyimidazole. Previous studies showed that the addition of polar and/or basic solvents can significantly improve the yield of a reaction of derivatization. In this work, four solvents were tested: pyridine, dimethylformamide, acetonitrile and acetone. The influence of each solvent was studied as a function of the silylating agent/solvent ratio. The influences of the temperature and of the reaction time on the reaction yields were also evaluated. A GC-MS quantitation method associating methanol chemical ionization and selected ion storage with three ions was developed and successfully tested on a reconstituted sediment spiked in zearalenone and its metabolites.
authors.affiliation: Département de Chimie des Mécanismes Réactionnels, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Said
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kinani
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bouchonnet
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bourcier
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Porcher
authors.forename: Sélim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aït-Aïssa
mesh_terms: D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D007700:Kinetics; D012015:Reference Standards; D013696:Temperature; D015025:Zearalenone / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D015025:Zearalenone