- Interconversion of nicotine enantiomers during heating and implications for smoke from combustible cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and electronic cigarettes
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Physiological properties of (R)-nicotine have differences compared with (S)-nicotine, and the subject of (S)- and (R)-nicotine ratio in smoking or vaping related items is of considerable interest. A Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method for the analysis of (S)- and (R)-nicotine has been developed and applied to samples of nicotine from different sources, nicotine pyrolyzates, several types of tobacco, smoke from combustible cigarettes, smoke from heated tobacco products, e-liquids, and particulate matter obtained from e-cigarettes aerosol. The separation was achieved on a Chiracel OJ-3 column, 250 × 4.6 mm with 3-μm particles using a nonaqueous mobile phase. The detection was performed using atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) in positive mode. The only transition measured for the analysis of nicotine was 163.1 → 84.0. The method has been summarily validated. For the analysis, the samples of tobacco and smoke from combustible cigarettes were subject to a cleanup procedure using solid phase extraction (SPE). It was demonstrated that nicotine upon heating above 450°C for several minutes starts decomposing, and some formation of (R)-enantiomer from a sample of 99% (S)-nicotine is observed. An analogous process takes place when a 99% (R)-nicotine is heated and forms low levels of (S)-nicotine. This interconversion has the effect of slightly increasing the content of (R)-nicotine in smoke compared with the level in tobacco for combustible cigarettes and for heated tobacco products. The (S)/(R) ratio of nicotine enantiomers in e-liquids was identical with the ratio for the particulate phase of aerosols generated by e-cigarette vaping.
- Moldoveanu, Serban C.
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p. 667 - 677
(2022/02/02)
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- Synthesis and photochromic behaviour of new dipyrrolylperfluorocyclopentenes
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The synthesis of new photoswitchable dipyrrolylethenes having different π-conjugated chain lengths, employing Wittig-Horner reaction, Knoevenagel condensation, Suzuki palladium catalyzed cross-coupling or Sonogashira coupling, is reported. Their photochemical behaviour, and in particular, their thermal stability has been investigated upon continuous irradiation with light of appropriate wavelengths.
- Heynderickx, Arnault,Kaou, Ali Mohamed,Moustrou, Corinne,Samat, Andre,Guglielmetti, Robert
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p. 1425 - 1432
(2007/10/03)
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