Electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry of the two main antimalarial drugs: artemether and lumefantrine

Electrospray ionization in the positive ion mode and high resolution and high accuracy tandem mass spectrometry performed in a hybrid quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer were used to investigate the dissociation chemistry of the intact molecules of two most widely used antimalarial drugs: artemether and lumefantrine. The dissociation pathways of their cationized and protonated forms were rationalized based on high accuracy mass measurements and isotopic distributions. The obtained results should benefit LC-MS/MS monitoring and quantitation by mass spectrometry of the artemether and lumefantrine molecules, as well as of new derivatives or other structurally related antimalarial drugs.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Santos,Vanessa G. dos, Alves,Ricardo J., Eberlin,Marcos N., Pianetti,Gerson A., César,Isabela C.
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Química 2012
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-50532012000100010
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