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  • Title: Quantification of ethylenediamine-N,N'-bis(hydroxysulfophenylacetic) acid regioisomers and structural characterisation of its related polycondensation products by porous graphitic carbon high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray tandem mass spectrometry.
    Author: Biasone A, Cianci G, Di Tommaso D, Piaggesi A, D'Alessandro N.
    Journal: J Chromatogr A; 2013 Oct 18; 1312():58-68. PubMed ID: 24028933.
    Abstract:
    Among the commercial ethylenediamine-N,N'-bis(2-hydroxy)phenylacetic acid/iron(III) derivatives, ethylenediamine-N,N'-bis(2-hydroxy-5-sulphophenylacetic) acid/iron(III) (EDDHSA/Fe) represents one of the promising chelates for the treatment of chlorotic plants. Industrial synthesis of EDDHSA/Fe leads to relevant amounts of o,o-EDDHSA condensation products (o,o-EDDHSAcps) and other secondary products that might have important relevance from the agronomic point of view. However, their chemical structures have remained unknown to date. Analysis of iron complexes by ion-pair reversed-phase chromatography, coupled with electrospray tandem mass spectrometry revealed the presence of the meso-o,o-EDDHSA/Fe, rac-o,o-EDDHSA/Fe, o,p-EDDHSA/Fe regioisomers, the hydroxyl derivative of o,o-EDDHSA/Fe, and the three main EDDHSA condensation products chelating the iron(III) (EDDHSAcps/nFe). However, the chromatographic peaks of EDDHSAcps/Fe are not well resolved due to the large numbers of stereoisomers and the poor efficiency of the ion-pair reversed-phase separation method. An alternative chromatographic method is based on porous graphitic carbon (PGC) separation after pre-column decomplexation of the chelates with trifluoracetic acid, which was developed to allow detection of EDDHSA stereo/regioisomers, EDDHSAcps, and low-molecular-weight by-products. This extensive PGC-HPLC-ESI-MS/MS investigation provides quantitative determination of meso-o,o-EDDHSA, rac-o,o-EDDHSA and o,p-EDDHSA, in addition to characterisation of EDDHSAcps and the low-molecular-weight by-products. PGC separation coupled to a triple quadrupole ESI-MS detector allowed characterisation of free ligands using collision-induced dissociation experiments in positive and negative ionisation mode, providing comparative evaluation of EDDHSAcps in three commercial samples. For detection, the PGC-HPLC-ESI-MS/MS is the best method according to the limit of quantification and limit of detection (picomolar and sub-picomolar detection, respectively) for determination of meso-EDDHSA and rac-o,o-EDDHSA. Synthesis, purification and quantification of o,o-EDDHSA and o,p-EDDHSA by (1)H-nuclear magnetic resonance are also reported.
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