Position-Specific Isotope Analysis of Xanthines: A super( 13)C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Method to Determine the super( 13)C Intramolecular Composition at Natural

The natural xanthines caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline are of major commercial importance as flavor constituents in coffee, cocoa, tea, and a number of other beverages. However, their exploitation for authenticity, a requirement in these commodities that have a large origin-based price-range,...

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Published in:Analytical chemistry (Washington) 2015-07, Vol.87 (13), p.6600-6600
Main Authors: Diomande, Didier G, Martineau, Estelle, Gilbert, Alexis, Nun, Pierrick, Murata, Ariaki, Yamada, Keita, Watanabe, Naoharu, Tea, Illa, Robins, Richard J, Yoshida, Naohiro, Remaud, Gerald S
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Language:English
Subjects:
Caffeine
Cocoa
Fractionation
Isotopes
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Preserves
Theophylline
Xanthines
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Summary:The natural xanthines caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline are of major commercial importance as flavor constituents in coffee, cocoa, tea, and a number of other beverages. However, their exploitation for authenticity, a requirement in these commodities that have a large origin-based price-range, by the standard method of isotope ratio monitoring by mass spectrometry (irm-MS) is limited. We have now developed a methodology that overcomes this deficit that exploits the power of isotopic quantitative ... nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometry combined with chemical modification of the xanthines to enable the determination of positional intramolecular ... ratios (...) with high precision. However, only caffeine is amenable to analysis: theobromine and theophylline present substantial difficulties due to their poor solubility. However, their N-methylation to caffeine makes spectral acquisition feasible. The method is confirmed as robust, with good repeatability of the ... values in caffeine appropriate for isotope fractionation measurements at natural abundance. It is shown that there is negligible isotope fractionation during the chemical N-methylation procedure. Thus, the method preserves the original positional ... values. The method has been applied to measure the position-specific variation of the ... distribution in caffeine. Not only is a clear difference between caffeine isolated from different sources observed, but theobromine from cocoa is found to show a ... pattern distinct from that of caffeine. (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)
ISSN:0003-2700