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Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a well-established and one of the most powerful separation techniques in the field of chiral separations. Its hyphenation with mass spectrometry (MS) combines both the high separation efficiency and low sample consumption of CE and the high sensitivity and structural information of MS. Thus, the outstanding chiral resolution power of CE along with the MS advantages makes CE-MS a perfect combination to achieve sensitive enantioseparations. This chapter describes three representative examples of different approaches used in the chiral analysis of amino acids in biological fluids by CE-MS. The first methodology uses the partial filling technique to avoid the entry of cyclodextrins in the MS source. The second method shows the possibility to carry out the direct coupling EKC-MS even when a relative high concentration of a native cyclodextrin is used as chiral selector. The last example illustrates an alternative strategy based on the formation of stable diastereomers between an enantiomerically pure chiral reagent and the amino acids enantiomers which can be separated in an achiral environment.

A liquid chromatography-(quadrupole-time of flight)-mass spectrometry methodology was developed to assess the authenticity of saffron through the analysis of a group of kaempferol derivatives recently proposed as novel authenticity markers as a result of a metabolomic study of saffron (kaempferol 3-O-glucoside, kaempferol 3-O-sophoroside, kaempferol 3,7-O-diglucoside, kaempferol 3,7,4'-O-triglucoside, kaempferol 3-O-sophoroside-7-O-glucoside). Geniposide was also studied as an adulteration marker of saffron with gardenia. The optimized chromatographic conditions enabling the simultaneous separation of glycosylated kaempferols and geniposide consisted of the use of a C18 column and an elution gradient with acetonitrile and water as mobile phases (both with formic acid at 0.1%). A strategy was proposed to evaluate the minimum quantifiable adulteration percentage which was established at a 0.2% regardless of the adulterant employed. The analysis of nineteen commercial samples showed the method to be specific and suitable for saffron quality control., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Capillary electrophoresis is a well-established separation technique in analytical research laboratories worldwide. Its interesting advantages make CE an efficient and potent alternative to other chromatographic techniques. However, it is also recognized that its main drawback is the relatively poor sensitivity when using optical detection. One way to overcome this limitation is to perform a derivatization reaction which is intended to provide the analyte more suitable analytical characteristics enabling a high sensitive detection. Based on the analytical step where the CE derivatization takes place, it can be classified as precapillary (before separation), in-capillary (during separation), or postcapillary (after separation). This chapter describes the application of four different derivatization protocols (in-capillary and precapillary modes) to carry out the achiral and chiral analysis of different compounds in food and biological samples with three different detection modes (UV, LIF, and MS).

In the current post-genomic era, Foodomics has been defined as a discipline that studies food and nutrition through the application of advanced omics approaches. Foodomics involves the use of genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, proteomics, peptidomics, and/or metabolomics to investigate food quality, safety, traceability and bioactivity. In this context, capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS) has been applied mainly in food proteomics, peptidomics and metabolomics. The aim of this review work is to present an overview of the most recent developments and applications of CE-MS as analytical platform for Foodomics, covering the relevant works published from 2008 to 2012. The review provides also information about the integration of several omics approaches in the new Foodomics field., (Copyright © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

Highlights: [•] Simultaneous determination of PCB, OH-PCBs and MeSO2-PCBs in a single GC–MS run. [•] Two different ionisation modes (EI and ECNI) are studied and compared. [•] The analytical characterisation of both methods is satisfactory. [•] Better LODs are achieved using ECNI-MS as ionisation mode. [•] The developed methodology is successfully applied to fish liver oil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]