TY - THES A1 - Bahrke, Sven T1 - Mass spectrometric analysis of chitooligosaccharides and their interaction with proteins T1 - Massenspektrometrische Analyse von Chitooligosacchariden und ihre Wechselwirkungen mit Proteinen N2 - Chitooligosaccharides are composed of glycosamin and N-acetylglycisamin residues. Gel permeations chromatography is employed for the separation of oligomers, cation exchange chromatography is used for the separation of homologes and isomers. Trideuterioacetylation of the chitooligosaccharides followed by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry allowes for the quantitation of mixtures of homologes. vMALDI LTQ multiple-stage MS is employed for quantitative sequencing of complex mixtures of heterochitooligosaccharides. Pure homologes and isomers are applied to biological assays. Chitooligosaccahrides form high-affinity non-covalent complexes with HC gp-39 (human cartilage glycoprotein of 39 kDa). The affinity of the chitooligosaccharides depends on DP, FA and the sequence of glycosamin and N-acetylglycosamin moieties. (+)nanoESI Q TOF MS/MS is used for identification of a high-affinity binding chitooligosaccharide of a non-covalent chitinase B - chitooligosaccharide complex. DADAA is identified as the heterochitoisomer binding with highest affinity and biostability to HC gp-39. Fluorescence based enzyme assays confirm the results. N2 - Chitooligosaccharide sind aus Glycosamin und N-Acetylglycosamun aufgebaut. Gelpermeationschromatographie wird für die Trennung von Oligomeren verwendet, die Kationenaustauschchromatographie wird zur Trennung von homologen- und Isomerengemischen angewendet. Trideuterioacetylierung der Chitooligosaccharide gefolgt von einer Analyse mittels MALDI-TOF MS erlaubt die quantitative Analyse von Homologengemischen. vMALDI LTQ multiple-stage MS wird angewendet zur Sequenzanalyse und Quantifizierung komplexer Gemische von Heterochitooligosacchariden. Reine Homologe und Isomere werden für biologische Assays verwendet. Dabei zeigt sich, dass Chitooligosaccharide mit HC gp-39 hochaffine Komplexe bilden. Die Affinität der Chitooligosaccharide hängt vom DP, FA und der Sequenz der Chitooligosaccharide ab. (+)nanoESI Q TOF MS/MS wird erfolgreich angewendet zur Identifizierung eines Chitooligosaccharides, das mit hoher Affinität an Chitinase B (Serratia marcescens) bindet. DADAA wurde als die Sequenz des Isomers identifiziert, das mit höchster Affinität und Biostabilität an aktive Chitinase B bindet. Fluoreszenz basierte Enzymassays konnten dieses Ergebnis bestätigen. KW - Chitooligosaccharide KW - HPLC KW - Massenspektrometrie KW - Chitolektine KW - Chitinase KW - Chitooligosaccharides KW - HPLC KW - Mass Spectrometry KW - Chitolectins KW - Chitinase Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-20179 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ghaffari, Morteza Hosseini A1 - Bernhoeft, Katrin A1 - Etheve, Stephane A1 - Immig, Irmgard A1 - Hoelker, Michael A1 - Sauerwein, Helga A1 - Schweigert, Florian J. T1 - Technical note: Rapid field test for the quantification of vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin A in whole blood and plasma of dairy cattle JF - Journal of dairy science N2 - Fast and easy tests for quantifying fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamin E and vitamin A, as well as beta-carotene, in whole blood without a need to preprocess blood samples could facilitate assessment of the vitamin status of dairy cattle. The objective of this study was to validate a field-portable fluorometer/spectrophotometer assay for the rapid quantification of these vitamins in whole blood and plasma of dairy cows and calves. We measured the concentrations of vitamin E and beta-carotene in whole blood and plasma from 28 dairy cows and 11 calves using the iCheck test (Bio-Analyt GmbH, Teltow, Germany) and compared the results with the current analytical standard (HPLC) in 2 independent laboratories, one at the University of Potsdam (Germany) and at one at DSM Nutritional Products Ltd. (Kaiseraugst, Switzerland). For vitamin A, the HPLC measurements were done only in the laboratory in Germany. The whole-blood concentrations of vitamin E as determined by iCheck (blood-hematocritcorrected) ranged from 1.82 to 4.99 mg/L in dairy cows and 0.34 to 3.40 mg/L in calves. These findings were moderately correlated (R-2 = 0.66) with the values assessed by HPLC in dairy cattle (cows + calves). When calves were excluded, the correlation was higher (R-2 = 0.961). The beta-carotene and vitamin A values obtained by the reference method HPLC were highly correlated with the iCheck methods in whole blood (R-2 = 0.99 and 0.88, respectively). In plasma, we observed strong correlations between the concentrations assessed by iCheck and those of HPLC for vitamin E (R-2 = 0.97), beta-carotene (R-2 = 0.98), and vitamin A (R-2 = 0.92) in dairy cattle (cows + calves). For vitamin E, beta-carotene, and vitamin A, we compared the relationship between the differences obtained by the iCheck assay and the HPLC measurements, as well as the magnitude of measurements, using Bland-Altman plots to test for systematic bias. For all 3 vitamins, the differences values were not outside the 95% acceptability limits; we found no systematic error between the 2 methods for all 3 analytes. KW - vitamin KW - cow-side assay KW - HPLC KW - method comparison Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2019-16755 SN - 0022-0302 SN - 1525-3198 VL - 102 IS - 12 SP - 11744 EP - 11750 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Islam, Khan M. S. A1 - Khalil, Mahmoud Abd Elhamid A1 - Maenner, Klaus A1 - Raila, Jens A1 - Rawel, Harshadrai Manilal A1 - Zentek, Jürgen A1 - Schweigert, Florian J. T1 - Lutein Specific Relationships among Some Spectrophotometric and Colorimetric Parameters of Chicken Egg Yolk JF - The journal of poultry science N2 - Lutein is an essential dietary carotenoid with health benefits and is inter alia responsible for the colouration of egg yolk. The relationship between lutein accumulation and egg yolk colouration was therefore studied in more detail. After feeding a low-luteine diet for 21 days, 14 birds (Lohmann brown hens aged 20 weeks) were fed a diet containing marigold (80 mg lutein/kg feed) and 14 other birds were fed a diet containing oleoresin (45 mg lutein/kg feed) for 21 days; for both groups of birds, this feeding period was followed by withdrawal for 21 days. The Roche Yolk Colour Fan (RYCF) score (0 to 15, where higher values denote greater colour intensity; R-2=0.87; P<0.01) and redness (R-2=0.89; P<0.01) increased with increasing lutein content of egg yolk. Total carotenoid content had a poor relationship with lightness (R-2=0.13; P>0.05) and yellowness (R-2=0.12; P>0.05) of the yolk. It may be concluded that increased lutein is potentially responsible for an increased RYCF score and redness (a*), but decreased yellowness (b*) and lightness (L*), of egg yolk. KW - carotenoid KW - HPLC KW - iCheck KW - lutein KW - spectrophotometry KW - yolk Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2141/jpsa.0160065 SN - 1346-7395 VL - 54 SP - 271 EP - 277 PB - Japan Poultry Science Association CY - Tsukuba ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Islam, Khan Md. Shaiful A1 - Schweigert, Florian J. T1 - Comparison of three spectrophotometric methods for analysis of egg yolk carotenoids JF - Food chemistry N2 - Carotenoids accumulated in the egg yolk are of importance for two reasons. Firstly they are important pigments influencing customer acceptance and secondly they are essential components with positive health effects either as antioxidants or as precursor of vitamin A. Different analytical methods are available to quantitatively identify carotenoids from egg yolk such as spectrophotometric methods described by AOAC (Association of Official Analytical Chemists) and HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography). Both methods have in common that they are time consuming, need a laboratory environment and well trained technical operators. Recently, a rapid lab-independent spectrophotometric method (iCheck, BioAnalyt GmbH, Germany) has been introduced that claims to be less time consuming and easy to operate. The aim of the current study was therefore to compare the novel method with the two standard methods. Yolks of 80 eggs were analysed as aliquots by the three methods in parallel. While both spectrometric methods are only able measure total carotenoids as total beta-carotene, HPLC enables the determination of individual carotenoids such lutein, zeaxanthin, canthaxanthin, beta-carotene and beta-apocarotenoic ester. In general, total carotenoids levels as obtained by AOAC were in average 27% higher than those obtained by HPLC. Carotenoid values obtained by the reference methods AOAC and HPLC are highly correlated with the iCheck method with r(2) of 0.99 and 0.94 for iCheck vs. AOAC and iCheck vs. HPLC, respectively (both p < 0.001). Bland Altman analysis showed that the novel iCheck method is comparable to the reference methods. In conclusion, the novel rapid and portable iCheck method is a valid and effective tool to determine total carotenoid of egg yolk under laboratory-independent conditions with little trained personal. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - AOAC KW - Carotenoid KW - HPLC KW - iCheck KW - Spectrophotometry KW - Yolk Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2014.09.045 SN - 0308-8146 SN - 1873-7072 VL - 172 SP - 233 EP - 237 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Islam, Khan Shaiful A1 - Khalil, Mahmoud A1 - Männer, K. A1 - Raila, Jens A1 - Rawel, Harshadrai Manilal A1 - Zentek, J. A1 - Schweigert, Florian J. T1 - Effect of dietary alpha-tocopherol on the bioavailability of lutein in laying hen JF - Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition N2 - Lutein and its isomer zeaxanthin have gained considerable interest as possible nutritional ingredient in the prevention of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in humans. Egg yolk is a rich source of these carotenoids. As an oxidative sensitive component, antioxidants such as -tocopherol (T) might contribute to an improved accumulation in egg yolk. To test this, chickens were fed lutein esters (LE) with and without -tocopherol as an antioxidant. After depletion on a wheat-soya bean-based lutein-poor diet for 21days, laying hens (n=42) were equally divided into three groups and fed the following diets for 21days: control (basal diet), a LE group (40mg LE/kg feed) and LE+T group (40mg LE plus 100mg T/kg feed). Eggs and blood were collected periodically. Carotenoids and -tocopherol in yolk and blood plasma were determined by HPLC. Egg yolk was also analysed for total carotenoids using a one-step spectrophotometric method (iCheck(())). Lutein, zeaxanthin, -tocopherol and total carotenoids in egg yolk were highest after 14days of feeding and decreased slightly afterwards. At the end of the trial, eggs of LE+T group contained higher amount of lutein (13.72), zeaxanthin (0.65), -tocopherol (297.40) and total carotenoids (21.6) compared to the LE group (10.96, 0.55, 205.20 and 18.0mg/kg, respectively, p<0.05). Blood plasma values of LE+T group contain higher lutein (1.3), zeaxanthin (0.06) and tocopherol (20.1) compared to LE group (1.02, 0.04 and 14.90mg/l, respectively, p<0.05). In conclusion, dietary -tocopherol enhances bioavailability of lutein reflecting higher content in egg yolk and blood plasma. Improved bioavailability might be due to increased absorption of lutein in the presence of tocopherol and/or a greater stability of lutein/zeaxanthin due to the presence of -tocopherol as an antioxidant. KW - carotenoids KW - tocopherol KW - egg yolk KW - bioavailability KW - HPLC KW - iCheck Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/jpn.12464 SN - 0931-2439 SN - 1439-0396 VL - 100 SP - 868 EP - 875 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kurbanoglu, Sevinc A1 - Yarman, Aysu T1 - Simultaneous determination of hydrochlorothiazide and irbesartan from pharmaceutical dosage forms with RP-HPLC T1 - Farmasötik Dozaj Formlarında TF-YPSK ile Hidroklorotiyazid ve İrbesartanın Eş Zamanlı Tayini JF - Turkish journal of pharmaceutical sciences N2 - Objectives: In this work, a simple and rapid liquid chromatographic method for the simultaneous determination of irbesartan (IRBE) and hydrochlorothiazide (HCT) was developed and validated by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC).
Materials and Methods: Experimental conditions such as different buffer solutions, various pH values, temperature, composition of the mobile phase, and the effect of flow rate were optimized.
Results: The developed RP-HPLC method for these antihypertensive agents was wholly validated and IRBE was detected in the linear range of 0.1-25 mu g mL(-1) and HCT was detected in the linear range of 0.25-25 mu g mL(-1). Moreover, the suggested chromatographic technique was successfully applied for the determination of the drugs in human serum and pharmaceutical dosage forms with limit of detection values of 0.008 mu g mL(-1) for IRBE and 0.012 mu g mL(-1) for HCT.
Conclusion: The proposed rapid analysis method of these antihypertensive drugs can be easily used and applied by pharmaceutical companies for which the analysis time is important. N2 - Amaç: Bu çalışmada, irbesartan (IRBE) ve hidroklorotiyazidin (HCT) eşzamanlı tayini için basit ve hızlı bir ters fazlı yüksek performanslı sıvı kromatografisi (TF-YPSK) yöntemi geliştirilmiş ve validasyon çalışmaları yapılmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Deneysel koşullar; farklı tampon çözeltileri, çeşitli pH değerleri, sıcaklık, mobil fazın bileşimi, akış hızının etkisi gibi parametrelerin üzerinden optimize edildi. Bulgular: Bu antihipertansif ajanlar için geliştirilen TF-YPSK yönteminin tüm validasyon parametrelerine ilişkin çalışmalar yapılmış, ve IRBE 0,1-25 μg mL-1 doğrusal aralığında ve HCT 0,25-25 μg mL-1 doğrusal aralığında tespit edilmiştir. Ayrıca önerilen TF-YPSK yöntemi ile IRBE için 0,008 μg mL-1 ve HCT için 0,012 μg mL-1 tayin alt sınır değerleri bulunmuştur. Geliştirilen yöntem, insan serumunda ve farmasötik dozaj formlarında bulunan IRBE ve HCT’nin belirlenmesi için başarıyla uygulanmıştır. Sonuç: Bu antihipertansif ilaçların miktar tayininde önerilen YPSK analiz yönteminin, analiz süresinin önemli olduğu ilaç firmalarında rahatlıkla kullanılabileceği ve uygulanabileceği düşünülmektedir. KW - HPLC KW - irbesartan KW - hydrochlorothiazide KW - pharmaceutical dosage forms Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4274/tjps.galenos.2019.76094 SN - 1304-530X VL - 17 IS - 5 SP - 523 EP - 527 PB - Turkish Pharmacists Association CY - Çankaya-Ankara ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Raila, Jens A1 - Enjalbert, Francis A1 - Mothes, Ralf A1 - Hurtienne, Andrea A1 - Schweigert, Florian J. T1 - Validation of a new point-of-care assay for determination of ss-carotene concentration in bovine whole blood and plasma JF - Veterinary clinical pathology N2 - Background: beta-Carotene is an important precursor of vitamin A, and is associated with bovine fertility. beta-Carotene concentrations in plasma are used to optimize beta-carotene supplementation in cattle, but measurement requires specialized equipment to separate plasma and extract and measure beta-carotene, either using spectrophotometry or high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Objective: The objective of this study was to validate a new 2-step point-of-care (POC) assay for measuring beta-carotene in whole blood and plasma. Methods: beta-carotene concentrations in plasma from 166 cows were measured using HPLC and compared with results obtained using a POC assay, the iCheck-iEx-Carotene test kit. Whole blood samples from 23 of these cattle were also evaluated using the POC assay and compared with HPLC-plasma results from the same 23 animals. The POC assay includes an extraction vial (iEx Carotene) and hand-held photometer (iCheck Carotene). Results: Concentrations of beta-carotene in plasma measured using the POC assay ranged from 0.40 to 15.84 mg/L (n = 166). No differences were observed between methods for assay of plasma (mean +/- SD; n = 166): HPLC-plasma 4.23 +/- 2.35 mg/L; POC-plasma 4.49 +/- 2.36 mg/L. Similar good agreement was found when plasma analyzed using HPLC was compared with whole blood analyzed using the POC system (n = 23): HPLC-plasma 3.46 +/- 2.12 mg/L; POC-whole blood 3.67 +/- 2.29 mg/L. Conclusions: Concentrations of beta-carotene can be measured in blood and plasma from cattle easily and rapidly using a POC assay, and results are comparable to those obtained by the highly sophisticated HPLC method. Immediate feedback regarding beta-carotene deficiency facilitates rapid and appropriate optimization of beta-carotene supplementation in feed. KW - Biomarker KW - HPLC KW - method comparison KW - nutritional supplements KW - vitamin A Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-165X.2012.00400.x SN - 0275-6382 VL - 41 IS - 1 SP - 119 EP - 122 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Malden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Villatoro, José Andrés A1 - Zühlke, Martin A1 - Riebe, Daniel A1 - Beitz, Toralf A1 - Weber, Marcus A1 - Riedel, Jens A1 - Löhmannsröben, Hans-Gerd T1 - IR-MALDI ion mobility spectrometry: physical source characterization and application as HPLC detector JF - International journal for ion mobility spectrometry : official publication of the International Society for Ion Mobility Spectrometry N2 - Infrared matrix-assisted laser dispersion and ionization (IR-MALDI) in combination with ion mobility (IM) spectrometry enables the direct analysis of biomolecules in aqueous solution. The release of ions directly from an aqueous solution is based on a phase explosion, induced by the absorption of an IR laser pulse, which disperses the liquid as vapor, nano-and micro-droplets. The ionization process is characterized initially by a broad spatial distribution of the ions, which is a result of complex fluid dynamics and desolvation kinetics. These processes have a profound effect on the shape and width of the peaks in the IM spectra. In this work, the transport of ions by the phase explosion-induced shockwave could be studied independently from the transport by the electric field. The shockwave-induced mean velocities of the ions at different time scales were determined through IM spectrometry and shadowgraphy. The results show a deceleration of the ions from 118 m.s(-1) at a distance of 400 mu m from the liquid surface to 7.1 m.s(-1) at a distance of 10 mm, which is caused by a pile-up effect. Furthermore, the desolvation kinetics were investigated and a first-order desolvation constant of 325 +/- 50 s(-1) was obtained. In the second part, the IR-MALDI-IM spectrometer is used as an HPLC detector for the two-dimensional separation of a pesticide mixture. KW - Ion mobility spectrometry KW - IR-MALDI KW - Shadowgraphy KW - Laser KW - Imaging KW - HPLC Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12127-016-0208-1 SN - 1435-6163 SN - 1865-4584 VL - 19 SP - 197 EP - 207 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Watanabe, Mutsumi A1 - Tohge, Takayuki A1 - Balazadeh, Salma A1 - Erban, Alexander A1 - Giavalisco, Patrick A1 - Kopka, Joachim A1 - Mueller-Roeber, Bernd A1 - Fernie, Alisdair R. A1 - Hoefgen, Rainer T1 - Comprehensive Metabolomics Studies of Plant Developmental Senescence JF - Plant Senescence: Methods and Protocols N2 - Leaf senescence is an essential developmental process that involves diverse metabolic changes associated with degradation of macromolecules allowing nutrient recycling and remobilization. In contrast to the significant progress in transcriptomic analysis of leaf senescence, metabolomics analyses have been relatively limited. A broad overview of metabolic changes during leaf senescence including the interactions between various metabolic pathways is required to gain a better understanding of the leaf senescence allowing to link transcriptomics with metabolomics and physiology. In this chapter, we describe how to obtain comprehensive metabolite profiles and how to dissect metabolic shifts during leaf senescence in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Unlike nucleic acid analysis for transcriptomics, a comprehensive metabolite profile can only be achieved by combining a suite of analytic tools. Here, information is provided for measurements of the contents of chlorophyll, soluble proteins, and starch by spectrophotometric methods, ions by ion chromatography, thiols and amino acids by HPLC, primary metabolites by GC/TOF-MS, and secondary metabolites and lipophilic metabolites by LC/ESI-MS. These metabolite profiles provide a rich catalogue of metabolic changes during leaf senescence, which is a helpful database and blueprint to be correlated to future studies such as transcriptome and proteome analyses, forward and reverse genetic studies, or stress-induced senescence studies. KW - Senescence KW - Metabolomics KW - Arabidopsis KW - GC/MS KW - LC/MS KW - HPLC KW - IC Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-4939-7672-0 SN - 978-1-4939-7670-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7672-0_28 SN - 1064-3745 SN - 1940-6029 VL - 1744 SP - 339 EP - 358 PB - Humana Press CY - Totowa ER - TY - THES A1 - Zühlke, Martin T1 - Elektrosprayionisation Ionenmobilitätsspektrometrie T1 - Electrospray ionization Ion mobility spectrometry BT - Entwicklung, Charakterisierung und Anwendung zur HPLC-Detektion und zum Reaktionsmonitoring BT - development, characterization and application for HPLC detection and reaction monitoring N2 - Die Elektrosprayionisation (ESI) ist eine der weitverbreitetsten Ionisationstechniken für flüssige Pro-ben in der Massen- und Ionenmobilitäts(IM)-Spektrometrie. Aufgrund ihrer schonenden Ionisierung wird ESI vorwiegend für empfindliche, komplexe Moleküle in der Biologie und Medizin eingesetzt. Überdies ist sie allerdings für ein sehr breites Spektrum an Substanzklassen anwendbar. Die IM-Spektrometrie wurde ursprünglich zur Detektion gasförmiger Proben entwickelt, die hauptsächlich durch radioaktive Quellen ionisiert werden. Sie ist die einzige analytische Methode, bei der Isomere in Echtzeit getrennt und über ihre charakteristische IM direkt identifiziert werden können. ESI wurde in den 90ger Jahren durch die Hill Gruppe in die IM-Spektrometrie eingeführt. Die Kombination wird bisher jedoch nur von wenigen Gruppen verwendet und hat deshalb noch ein hohes Entwick-lungspotential. Ein vielversprechendes Anwendungsfeld ist der Einsatz in der Hochleistungs-flüssigkeitschromatographie (HPLC) zur mehrdimensionalen Trennung. Heutzutage ist die HPLC die Standardmethode zur Trennung komplexer Proben in der Routineanalytik. HPLC-Trennungsgänge sind jedoch häufig langwierig und der Einsatz verschiedener Laufmittel, hoher Flussraten, von Puffern, sowie Laufmittelgradienten stellt hohe Anforderungen an die Detektoren. Die ESI-IM-Spektrometrie wurde in einigen Studien bereits als HPLC-Detektor eingesetzt, war dort bisher jedoch auf Flussratensplitting oder geringe Flussraten des Laufmittels beschränkt. In dieser kumulativen Doktorarbeit konnte daher erstmals ein ESI IM-Spektrometer als HPLC-Detektor für den Flussratenbereich von 200-1500 μl/min entwickelt werden. Anhand von fünf Publi-kationen wurden (1) über eine umfassende Charakterisierung die Eignung des Spektrometers als HPLC-Detektor festgestellt, (2) ausgewählte komplexe Trenngänge präsentiert und (3) die Anwen-dung zum Reaktionsmonitoring und (4, 5) mögliche Weiterentwicklungen gezeigt. Erfolgreich konnten mit dem selbst-entwickelten ESI IM-Spektrometer typische HPLC-Bedingungen wie Wassergehalte im Laufmittel von bis zu 90%, Pufferkonzentrationen von bis zu 10 mM, sowie Nachweisgrenzen von bis zu 50 nM erreicht werden. Weiterhin wurde anhand der komplexen Trennungsgänge (24 Pestizide/18 Aminosäuren) gezeigt, dass die HPLC und die IM-Spektrometrie eine hohe Orthogonalität besitzen. Eine effektive Peakkapazität von 240 wurde so realisiert. Auf der HPLC-Säule koeluierende Substanzen konnten über die Driftzeit getrennt und über ihre IM identifi-ziert werden, sodass die Gesamttrennzeiten erheblich minimiert werden konnten. Die Anwend-barkeit des ESI IM-Spektrometers zur Überwachung chemischer Synthesen wurde anhand einer dreistufigen Reaktion demonstriert. Es konnten die wichtigsten Edukte, Zwischenprodukte und Produkte aller Stufen identifiziert werden. Eine quantitative Auswertung war sowohl über eine kurze HPLC-Vortrennung als auch durch die Entwicklung eines eigenen Kalibrierverfahrens, welches die Ladungskonkurrenz bei ESI berücksichtigt, ohne HPLC möglich. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit werden zwei Weiterentwicklungen des Spektrometers präsentiert. Eine Möglichkeit ist die Reduzierung des Drucks in den intermediären Bereich (300 - 1000 mbar) mit dem Ziel der Verringerung der benötigten Spannungen. Mithilfe von Streulichtbildern und Strom-Spannungs-Kurven wurden für geringe Drücke eine verminderte Freisetzung der Analyt-Ionen aus den Tropfen festgestellt. Die Verluste konnten jedoch über höhere elektrische Feldstärken ausgeglichen werden, sodass gleiche Nachweisgrenzen bei 500 mbar und bei 1 bar erreicht wurden. Die zweite Weiterentwicklung ist ein neuartiges Ionentors mit Pulsschaltung, welches eine Verdopplung der Auflösung auf bis zu R > 100 bei gleicher Sensitivität ermöglichte. Eine denkbare Anwendung im Bereich der Peptidanalytik wurde mit beachtlichen Auflösungen der Peptide von R = 90 gezeigt. N2 - Electrospray ionization (ESI) is one of the most widespread ionization techniques for liquid samples in mass and ion mobility (IM) spectrometry. Due to its gentle ionization, ESI is often used for sensitive, complex molecules in biology and medicine. However, it is also applicable to a wide range of substance classes. IM spectrometry was originally developed for the detection of gaseous samples, which are mainly ionized by radioactive sources. It is the only analytical method in which isomers can be separated in real time and directly identified by their characteristic IM. ESI was introduced to IM spectrometry by the Hill Group in the 90s. So far, the combination was only used by a limited number of groups and therefore there is still a large development potential. A highly promising field of application is highperformance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for multidimensional separations. At present, HPLC is the standard method for the separation of complex samples in routine analysis. However, HPLC separations are often time-consuming and the use of different solvents, high flow rates, buffers, as well as solvent gradients impose high demands on the detectors. ESI IM spectrometry was already used as an HPLC detector in a number of studies. However, these studies were restricted to splitting or low flow rates of the mobile phase. In this cumulative thesis, an ESI IM spectrometer was developed as an HPLC detector for the flow rate range of 200-1500 μl/min for the first time. Based on five publications, (1) the suitability of the spectrometer as an HPLC detector was comprehensively characterized, (2) selected complex separations are presented, and (3) the application to the reaction monitoring as well as (4, 5) possible further developments are shown. With the in-house developed ESI IM spectrometer, typical HPLC conditions such as water contents in the mobile phase of up to 90%, buffer concentrations of up to 10 mM, as well as detection limits of up to 50 nM, were achieved successfully. Furthermore, on the basis of a complex separation (24 pesticides/18 amino acids), it could be demonstrated that HPLC and IM spectrometry possess a high degree of orthogonality. An effective peak capacity of 240 was thus realized. Substances coeulating on the HPLC column could be separated in the drift time and were identified by their IM. Thus, the overall separation times could be significantly reduced. The applicability of the ESI IM spectrometer for the monitoring of chemical syntheses was demonstrated for a three-stage reaction. The main starting materials, intermediates and products of all stages could be identified. A quantitative evaluation was possible both by means of a short HPLC pre-separation as well as by a newly developed calibration procedure, which takes charge competition during ESI into account, without HPLC. In the second part of the thesis, two further developments of the spectrometer are presented. One possibility is a reduction of the pressure to the intermediate range (300 - 1000 mbar) with the aim of reducing the required voltages. With the help of scattered light images and current-voltage curves, a reduced release of analyte ions from the droplets was determined at low pressures. However, these losses could be compensated for by higher electric field strengths. Therefore, the same detection limits were achieved at 500 mbar and at 1 bar. The second development is a novel ion gate with pulse switching, which allows a doubling of the resolution up to R > 100 with equal sensitivity. A possible application in the field of peptide analysis was demonstrated, achieving a considerable resolutions of R = 90 for the peptides. KW - HPLC KW - HPLC KW - Ionenmobilitätsspektrometrie KW - Elektrosprayionisation KW - ion mobility spectrometry KW - electrospray ionization (ESI) Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-407452 ER -