Simultaneous Determination of Contents of Flavonol Glycosides and Terpene Lactones in Ginkgo Biloba Tablets by Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry Detector

Abstract

Ginkgo biloba leaf tablets is an effective ingredient in the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In the process of drug production, the quality of ginkgo preparations is often controlled by measuring the content of seven ingredients in ginkgo leaves. To establish UPLC-MS multicomponent analysis method for ginkgo biloba tablets and to simultaneously determine the contents of quercetin (QUE), isorhamnetin(ISO), kaempferol(KAE) and GinkgolideA (GA),ginkgolideB(GB),ginkgolideC(GC) and bilobalide (BB) in ginkgo tablets. Waters Xbridge C18(4.6×150mm,3.5um) column was used, mobile phase A was acetonitrile and mobile phase B was water (containing 0.10% formic acid). The injection volume was 10μL.Negative ion mode monitoring was conducted with ESI. Scanning range:m/z100∼1400.The detection ions of the seven tested components includem/z301.0(QUE),m/z284.9(KAE),m/z315.1(ISO),m/z453.1(GA),m/z423.1(G B),m/z439.0(GC)and m/z325.0(BB), respectively. Within a space of 10min, flavonoids and terpene lactones in ginkgo biloba tablets were completely separated. The peak area exhibited an excellent linear relationship with the concentration. The sample recovery rate ranged from 91.74% to 109.77%.Precision RSDs of within-day and between-day were lower than 2.879% and 3.928% respectively. The method for determination of seven components in ginkgo biloba tablets displays good repeatability, recovery rate and precision, for which it can be applied to quality control of ginkgo biloba tablets.