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Fragmentation of negative ions produced by fast-atom bombardment (FAB) from 14 tauroconjugated bile acids and some of their deuterated analogs has been studied by mass spectrometry and by collision-induced dissociation (CED) tandem mass spectrometry at low energy.
Low energy collision-induced dissociation of the deprotonated molecules [M - H]− of these tauroconjugated bile acids leads to both charge-driven and charge-remote fragmentations (CRF). The former yields neutral loss from the side chain with charge migration during the fragmentation process. These fragments dominate the CID spectra, but are absent from the FAB spectra. Their relative abundances are dependent on the number and the positions of the hydroxyl groups in the steroid nucleus and thus permit distinction among some positional isomers.
The CRF fragments correspond to cleavages in the side chain up to fragmentations across the steroid rings with charge retention on the sulfonate group. These CRF fragments, which also are useful for structural identification, are less intense in CID than in FAB spectra. It appears that these charge-remote fragments are favored by unsaturation in the steroid rings, either as keto groups or as endocyclic double bonds. Tandem mass spectrometry combined with the use of deuterated analogs demonstrates that the structures of the survivor pseudomolecular ions and of the CRF fragments are not rearranged.
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Stroobant, V., de Hoffmann, E., Libert, R. et al. Fast-atom bombardment mass spectrometry and low energy collision-induced tandem mass spectrometry of tauroconjugated bile acid anions. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 6, 588–596 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(95)00203-P
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