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Fragmentation Behavior Studies of Chalcones Employing Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART)

  • Motiur Rahman, A.F.M. (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University) ;
  • Attwa, Mohamed W. (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University) ;
  • Ahmad, Pervez (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University) ;
  • Baseeruddin, Mohammad (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University) ;
  • Kadi, Adnan A. (Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University)
  • Received : 2013.02.23
  • Accepted : 2013.06.20
  • Published : 2013.06.01
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Abstract

Chalcones are naturally occurring, biologically active molecules generating interest from a wide range of research applications including synthetic methodology development, biological activity investigation and studying fragmentation patterns. In this article, a series of chalcones has been synthesized and their fragmentation behavior was studied using modern ambient ionization technique Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART). DART ion source connected with an ion trap mass spectrometer was used for the fragmentation of various substituted chalcones. The chalcones were introduced to the DART source using a glass capillary without sample preparation step. All the chalcones showed prominent molecular ion peaks $[M]^{{\cdot}+}$ corresponding to the structures. Multistage mass spectral data $MS^n$ ($MS^2$ and $MS^3$) were collected for all the chalcones studied. The chalcones with substitutions at 3, 4 or 5 positions gave product ion peaks with the loss of a phenyl radical ($Ph^{\cdot}$) by radical initiated ${\alpha}$-cleavage, while substitution at 2 position of chalcone in the A-ring gave a product ion peak with the loss of substituted styryl radical (PhCH = $CH^{\cdot}$). In case of the chalcones with the substituent at 4 positions in A and B rings gave both types of fragmentation patterns. In conclusion, chalcones can be easily characterized using modern DART interface in very short time and efficiently without any cumbersome sample pretreatment.

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