PMID- 21899852 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20111208 LR - 20131121 IS - 1873-3778 (Electronic) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 1218 IP - 41 DP - 2011 Oct 14 TI - Coupling frontal elution paper chromatography with desorption corona beam ionization mass spectrometry for rapid analysis of chlorphenamine in herbal medicines and dietary supplements. PG - 7371-6 LID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.08.067 [doi] AB - We developed a convenient method by coupling frontal elution paper chromatography with desorption corona beam ionization mass spectrometry (DCBI-MS) for rapid determination of chlorphenamine added in herbal medicines or dietary supplements. In this method, the ethanol extract of the herbal products was spotted directly onto an isosceles triangular filter paper sheet, and then the paper sheet was developed under strong elution condition with the sample zone migrating at the solvent front. The analyte was finally condensed at the V-shaped tip which could then be placed under the visible plasma beam of DCBI for ionization. The overall procedure took less than 5 min. The frontal elution paper chromatography on a triangular plate used in this work improved the signal intensity of chlorphenamine by 30-fold due to the analyte condensing at the tip and the reduction of the background suppression. Furthermore, the paper sheet also functioned as a filter in the analysis of solid or powder samples, which can increase the analytical throughput by omitting the step of centrifugation. The proposed method in current study was successfully applied in the determination of chlorphenamine in herbal medicines. Chlorphenamine was detected in four of the twelve types of herbal medicines examined in this study. The limit of detection was 200 ng/mL (2.0 ng absolute) in full-scan positive-ion mode and the linear range was from 5.0 mug/mL to 50 mug/mL with satisfactory linear coefficient (R(2) (the square of the correlation coefficient)=0.895). Good reproducibility was achieved with relative standard deviations (RSDs) less than 15.0% and the recoveries of chlorphenamine ranged from 84.3 to 90.6%. CI - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Huang, Yun-Qing AU - Huang YQ AD - Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. FAU - You, Jing-Qing AU - You JQ FAU - Zhang, Junsheng AU - Zhang J FAU - Sun, Wenjian AU - Sun W FAU - Ding, Li AU - Ding L FAU - Feng, Yu-Qi AU - Feng YQ LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20110825 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - 0 (Drugs, Chinese Herbal) RN - 0 (Tablets) RN - 3K9958V90M (Ethanol) RN - 3U6IO1965U (Chlorpheniramine) SB - IM MH - Chlorpheniramine/*analysis MH - Chromatography, Liquid/*methods MH - Dietary Supplements/*analysis MH - Drugs, Chinese Herbal/*chemistry MH - Ethanol MH - Linear Models MH - Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Paper MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Sensitivity and Specificity MH - Tablets/chemistry EDAT- 2011/09/09 06:00 MHDA- 2011/12/13 00:00 CRDT- 2011/09/09 06:00 PHST- 2011/06/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/08/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/08/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/09/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/12/13 00:00 [medline] AID - S0021-9673(11)01277-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.08.067 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2011 Oct 14;1218(41):7371-6. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.08.067. Epub 2011 Aug 25.