Determination of carnitine enantiomers in dietary supplement by 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance combined with chiral lanthanide shift reagents
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Hubei Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Food Quality and Safety Test, Key Laboratory of Detection Technology of Focus Chemical Hazards in Animal-derived Food for State Market Regulation, Hubei Provincial Institute for Food Supervision and Test, Hubei Wuhan 430075, China

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    Objective A qualitative and quantitative method has been established to rapidly determine carnitine enantiomers in dietary supplement by 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance combined with chiral lanthanide shift reagents (CLSR-1H qNMR).Methods Pyrazine acted as internal standard was added to the samples dissolved in d4-methanol. After vortexing, ultrasonic-assisted extraction and centrifugation, an appropriate amount of supernatant and chiral lanthanide shift reagent (CLSR) Eu(thfc)3 were added to the NMR tube for directly determination.Results The linearity range of L-carnitine was 16.3~4 800 μg/mL with correlation coefficient (r)>0.99. The limit of detection (LOD) was 24.5 mg/kg, and the limit of quantification (LOQ) was 73.5 mg/kg. While the linearity range of D-carnitine was 10.6~530 μg/mL with r>0.99. The LOD was 27.5 mg/kg, and the LOQ was 82.5 mg/kg. Recovery rates obtained from spiked samples were between 95.9% and 114.6% with the RSDs (n=6) of 3.31%~6.12%. Tests on capsules, milk tea, coffee powder and tablet from online shopping that claimed to have weight-loss effects failed to detect D-carnitine.Conclusion This method is simple, rapid and sensitive. And the sample test could be completed within 25 min, which could provide a theoretical basis for rapidly detection of carnitine enantiomers.

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XIA Jintao, ZHU Songsong, ZHU Qian, JIANG Feng. Determination of carnitine enantiomers in dietary supplement by 1H-nuclear magnetic resonance combined with chiral lanthanide shift reagents[J].中国食品卫生杂志,2022,34(4):730-736.

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  • Received:February 17,2022
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