Mass spectrometric approaches in structural identification of the reaction products arising from the interaction between glucose and lysine.

The products arising from the reaction of alpha-protected lysine with glucose have been studied by different techniques, viz. high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV detection, fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry (MS), and HPLC/MS. Most of the analytical data were obtained by the last approach and allowed identification of many molecular species for a thorough knowledge of possible reaction pathways or structural data already available in the literature.