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Syntheses of deuterated leu-enkephalins and their use as internal standards for the quantification of leu-enkephalin by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry

✍ Scribed by Dr. E. Benfenati; G. Icardi; S. Chen; R. Fanelli


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1990
Tongue
French
Weight
348 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-2135

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Abstract

We have developed a synthetic method for the preparation of di‐ and pentadeuterated leu‐enkephalin (LE), Tyr‐Gly‐Gly‐Phe‐Leu, by proton‐deuterium exchange using CF~3~COO^2^H. Four to six deuterium atoms are introduced using a reaction temperature of 120°C and if 5% of ^2^H~2~O is added the di‐deuterated LE is obtained. These deuterated compounds are used as internal standards to plot calibration curves of LE using fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry.