The invention discloses a method used for separating and identifying
flavonoid matters in tobacco by adopting liquid
chromatography-
mass spectrography. The method comprises the following steps: a sample is ground and dried, an extractant is added according to the standard that 0.1 ml of the extractant is added into 1 mg of the sample for extraction and
centrifugation, a supernatant liquor is collected, water and
chloroform are added according to the standard that 0.5 ml of the water and 1 ml of the
chloroform are added into 1 ml of the supernatant liquor for
centrifugation, and the supernatant liquor is collected for analysis; 153+ and 151- are adopted as characteristic ions for scanning, parent ions are extracted for second level
mass spectrum scanning, and an obtained
spectrogram is compared with a spectral
library to determine a
chemical structure and verified through a reference substance; the molecules and ions of the identified matters and
myricetin, dihydromyricetin,
catechinic acid / epicatechin,
daidzein,
glycitein and
glycyrrhizin /
isoliquiritigenin are adopted as characteristic ions for scanning, the molecules and ions of the searched
glycosylation flavonoid matters are used as the parent ions for the second level
mass spectrum scanning, an obtained
spectrogram is compared with the spectral
library to determine a
chemical structure and verified through the reference substance. According to the invention, the method is suitable for the analyzing and detecting micro even trace
flavonoid matters.