Author(s)

Samia Mokh¹, Farouk Jaber¹, Abir Kouzayha¹, Hélène Budzinski², Mohamad Al Iskandarani^1,3*

¹Laboratory for Analysis of Organic Compound (LACO), Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC), National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), Beirut, Lebanon.
²ISM-LPTC-UMR 5255 (Laboratory of Physico and Toxico Chemistry), CNRS, Bordeaux University 1, Talence, France.
³Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon.

Aminoglycosides are a family of antibiotics with important applications in veterinary medicine. Their ionic character, the similarity structures and the high polarity due to the presence of two or more amino and hydroxyl groups cause a difficulty in separation and make these compounds poorly retained on the reversed phase column. An analytical method for the separation and detection of 12 aminoglycosides has been optimized using two kinds of chromatographic conditions (HILIC, Ion pairing). In Hydrophilic Interaction, ZIC_HILIC column was used, by which the following parameters for the mobile phase were evaluated: concentration of ammonium acetate buffer, percentage of formic acid and effect of acid type. The maximum and adequate concentration of ammonium acetate for the majority of analytes was set to 30 mM. The percentage 0.1% of formic acid increases the response for the majority of analytes. On the other side, the use of 0.1% of trifluoroacetic acid improves the response when compared with the response obtained with 0.1% of formic acid except for Spectinomycin Dihydrostreptomycin and Streptomycin. For ion pairing chromatography, the concentration of pentafluoropropionic acid was tested and the greatest value appeared to be 9.2 mM. Therefore, the comparison between the two separation methods shows that the response area of the majority of analytes tested increases when using the ion pair mode. Also, the high value of S/N and the lower detection limit (5 - 15 μg m·L^﹣1 for most aminoglycosides studied make the ion pairing method more preferable than HILIC interaction.

Aminoglycosides, Ion Pairing, ZIC-HILIC, LC-MS/MS

Mokh, S. , Jaber, F. , Kouzayha, A. , Budzinski, H. and Al Iskandarani, M. (2014) Optimization and Comparisons for Separation, Detection and Quantification of 12 Aminoglycosides Using 2 Chromatographic Conditions by LC-MS/MS. American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 5, 982-994. doi: 10.4236/ajac.2014.514105.