Procyanidins are polyphenols abundant in dietary fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, and grains with a variety of chemopreventive biological effects. Rapid structure determination of these compounds is needed, notably for the more complex polymeric procyanidins. We review the recent developments in the structure elucidation of procyanidins with a focus on mass spectrometric approaches, especially liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) MS/MS.
Keyphrases
- liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
- mass spectrometry
- ms ms
- solid phase extraction
- simultaneous determination
- liquid chromatography
- high performance liquid chromatography
- drug delivery
- molecularly imprinted
- high resolution
- gas chromatography
- tandem mass spectrometry
- capillary electrophoresis
- cancer therapy
- health risk
- climate change
- sensitive detection