Institution: | a Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università di Firenze, Via G. Capponi 9, 50121 Firenze, Italy b Centro di Spettrometria di Massa e Analisi Frammentografiche, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Firenze, Viale G. B. Morgagni 65, 50134 Firenze, Italy |
Abstract: | The medicinally important quaternary ammonium salts benzyldimethyltetradecylammonium chloride (BDTA), cetylpyridinium chloride and benzethonium chloride, all afford, under fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometric conditions, abundant and persistent M---Cl]+ species usefully amenable to quantitative analysis with the aid of thioglycerol as a liquid FAB matrix. The use of BDTA as an internal standard allowed a direct, precise and accurate determination of cetylpyridinium and benzethonium chlorides, either as pure samples or in dosage forms, in the concentration range 0.05–2 mg/ml. |