Collisional spectroscopy as a screening procedure for the determination of 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H-imidazole from acid hydrolysis of B-poly(L-lysine) and B-albumin.

The direct determination of 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H-imidazole (FFI), present in the acid hydrolysis products of B-poly(L-lysine) and B-albumin and which appears to be a key intermediate in the physicochemical changes occurring during the incubation of protein with glucose, has been carried out by collisional spectroscopy, using a commercial double-focusing, reverse-geometry mass spectrometer and without any sample derivatization and chromatographic separation procedures.

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