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Record W4411096409 · doi:10.1007/s00216-025-05920-1

Site-specific hydrogen isotope measurements of vanillin by 2H-qNMR and GC-IRMS

2025· article· en· W4411096409 on OpenAlex
Phuong Mai Le, Markus Greule, Stanislav Sokolenko, Serge Akoka, Gérald S. Remaud, Peter Costa, Kathy Sharon Isaac, André J. Simpson, Frank Keppler, Juris Meija

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Bibliographic record

VenueAnalytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicBiochemical and biochemical processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoDalhousie UniversityNational Research Council Canada
FundersNational Research Council CanadaConnaught FundAgence Nationale de la Recherche
KeywordsVanillinIsotope-ratio mass spectrometryChemistryIsotope analysisIsotopeIsotopic signatureHydrogenStable isotope ratioIsotopes of carbonAnalytical Chemistry (journal)Gas chromatographyChromatographyOrganic chemistryTotal organic carbon

Abstract

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Abstract Stable isotope analyses are powerful techniques to detect counterfeiting of food products, especially in vanillin, one of the world’s most popular flavors used in food and pharmaceutical industries. Although a stable carbon isotopic ratio provides an invaluable new source of isotopic information, the analysis of the hydrogen site-specific ( 2 H/ 1 H) isotopic distribution in vanillin gives valuable complementary isotopic information allowing a complete isotopic fingerprint of the vanillin molecule for authentication. However, there are only a limited number of studies that compare the validity of the results obtained by IRMS and NMR. Here, we present site-specific isotope analysis (also known as position-specific isotope analysis, PSIA) of hydrogen isotopic measurements of vanillin by two independent measurement methods, 2 H-qNMR and GC-IRMS, and compare the results obtained by these two methods. 2 H-qNMR allows isotopic measurements of all hydrogen atoms (except for OH) of the vanillin molecule while GC-IRMS measures only the hydrogen atoms of the methoxy group (H5). 2 H/ 1 H values of the vanillin H5 from six vanillin demonstrate remarkable agreement between the two techniques with uncertainty well below 1%. Position-specific GC-IRMS on the methoxy group measurements provides three-fold smaller measurement uncertainties while requiring a considerably smaller sample size compared to 2 H-qNMR. This quantitative hydrogen isotopic study extends our previous successful work comparing and validating the stable carbon isotopic of the vanillin methoxy group using 13 C-qNMR and GC-IRMS. Compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) using GC-IRMS was also described in this work. Both qNMR and partial PSIA GC-IRMS can be considered as complementary analytical methods, and their combined use provides reliable results. Graphical Abstract

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.229 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it