High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of urinary catecholamines by pre-column solid-phase dansylation on alumina

✍ Scribed by Hironori Tsuchiya; Mikio Tatsumi; Nobuhiko Takagi; Toru Koike; Hideki Yamaguchi; Tokishi Hayashi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 462 KB
• Volume: 155
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2697
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(86)90219-8

✦ Synopsis

Sensitive and selective high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of catecholamines by pre-column solid-phase dansylation is described. After catecholamines are adsorbed on alumina, the amino groups not responsible for adsorption are dansylated by a solid-phase reaction. The excess reagent and fluorescent contaminants are washed out, and the dansylated catecholamines are eluted and separated by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The four catecholamine derivatives can be separated within 10 min and no major interfering peak is observed on chromatograms. The response of each catecholamine is linear from 10 to 500 pmol per sample and the detection limit is 0.5 pmol. This method was applied to determination of catecholamines in human urine.