Simultaneous determination of beclomethasone, beclomethasone monopropionate and beclomethasone dipropionate in biological fluids using a particle beam interface for combining liquid chromatography with negative-ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry
1991
Abstract A new simple and sensitive assay has been developed for the simultaneous quantitative measurement of beclomethasone dipropionate and its hydrolysis products in human plasma and urine. Beclomethasone 17,21-dipropionate, beclomethasone 17-monopropionate, beclomethasone and the internal standard, dexamethasone 21-acetate, were measured by combined liquid chromatography and negative-ion chemical ionization mass spectrometry with methane as the reagent gas. A particle beam interface from Hewlett Packard was used. Under mild operating conditions, abundant and stable characteristic high-mass ions were generated in the ion source of the mass spectrometer by a resonance electron-capture mechanism. The fast extraction procedure requires 1 ml of plasma or urine, and the quantification limit of the method is 1 ng ml −1 for the three tested compounds.
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