• J Mass Spectrom · Jul 2007

    Synthesis and characterization of succinylcholine-d18 and succinylmonocholine-d3 designed for simultaneous use as internal standards in mass spectrometric analyses.

    • Uta Kuepper, Frank Musshoff, and Burkhard Madea.
    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bonn, Stiftsplatz 12, 53111 Bonn, Germany. Uta.Kuepper@ukb.uni-bonn.de
    • J Mass Spectrom. 2007 Jul 1;42(7):929-39.

    AbstractSuccinylcholine (SUX) is a routinely used yet potentially lethal depolarizing muscle relaxant, the detection of which poses severe problems to the clinical or forensic analyst: within a few minutes after its in vivo administration, SUX is broken down via succinylmonocholine (SMC) to yield the endogenous substances succinic acid and choline. For quantification of SUX and SMC in biological matrices using mass spectrometric detection, appropriate internal standards, i.e. deuterated analogs of the above substances, are indispensable but not commercially available. Internal standards for both substances were hence tailored to fit the analytical needs. The two-step synthesis and subsequent characterization of SUX-d(18) and SMC-d(3) using a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, fast atom bombardment mass spectroscopy (FAB-MS) and high-performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) are described. SUX-d(18) was synthesized by reacting ethanolamine and iodomethane-d(3) in a first quaternization step to choline-d(9), which in turn was esterified with succinyldichloride to yield the final product. SMC-d(3) was produced by esterification of succinic acid anhydride with dimethylaminoethanol, yielding desmethyl-SMC as intermediate product. The latter was then reacted with iodomethane-d(3) to obtain SMC-d(3). (1)H- and (13)C-NMR data support the identity and purity as well as the designated deuteration of both preparations, findings which were further confirmed by FAB-MS as well as HPLC-MS/MS. Owing to a thoughtful design, the obtained substances SUX-d(18) and SMC-d(3) feature different deuteration patterns at their trimethylamine moieties, and thus finally offer the possibility to simultaneously quantify SUX and SMC in clinical as well as forensic samples using isotope dilution mass spectrometry.Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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