Comparison of gas- and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for trace analysis of anilines in groundwater.

Autor: Dorgerloh, Ute, Hofmann, Andrea, Riedel, Juliane, Becker, Roland
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Zdroj: International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry; Dec2023, Vol. 103 Issue 19, p8465-8477, 13p
Abstrakt: Three chromatographic procedures were investigated regarding their potential for the quantification of aniline and 19 of its methylated and chlorinated derivatives in groundwater. These methods were based on liquid-liquid-extraction in combination with gas chromatography and single quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC/MS) according to German standard DIN 38407–16:1999 and its extension using tandem mass spectrometry (GC/MS-MS), both following liquid–liquid extraction, and as third alternative the direct injection of the water sample into a liquid chromatograph coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS-MS). Results were compared using fortified water and real-world contaminated groundwater used in an interlaboratory comparison. It could be shown that GC/MS and GC/MS-MS yielded results deviating less than 10% from each other, while all three procedures displayed quantification results deviating less than 15% from the intercomparison reference values in case of each analyte in the concentration range between 1 and 45 µg L−1. Though GC/MS-MS displays a ten-fold higher sensitivity than single quadrupole GC/MS, the precision of both methods in the concentration range was similar. LC/MS-MS has the advantage of no further sample preparation due to direct injection and leads for methylanilines and meta-, para-substituted chloroanilines to results sufficiently equivalent to the standardised GC/MS method. However, LC/MS-MS is not suitable for ortho-chloroaniline derivatives due to significantly lower ion yields than meta- and para-substituted chloroanilines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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