Attachement anionique en spectrométrie de masse électrospray négative : étude de la régiosélectivité et application à l'amélioration de la détection des stéroïdes en matrice urinaire pour le contrôle antidopage dans le sport.

摘要

Androgenic anabolic steroids that are neither acidic or basic do not provide strong signals for their analysis by electrospray mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), making their detection difficult with the use of this technique. Although some steroids can be adequately analysed by standard antidoping analytical methods, such as gas-phase chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) with an electron ionization source (EI), there is nonetheless a need for the development of the method that could efficiently detect more difficult compounds, i.e. the least likely to ionize by ESI. In order to solve this problem, the chosen approach is based on addition of anions (found as ammonium salts) to anabolic steroids as principle for the development of an analytical method for the detection of those compounds. It was confirmed that the instrumental limits of detection obtained with the anions were lower compared to the same analyses without additive in positive or negative ESI. The steps for this method development based on liquid-phase chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) are also presented. The results obtained on samples in urine matrice have shown that anion attachment brings a new promising approach for steroid detection in antidoping control. Furthermore, experiments on bifonctionnal steroids such as 5-α-pregnan-3α,20β-diol or reducted d4-17,21,21,21-pregnenolone have brought light on the factors that dictate preferential attachment of a given anion.