Chinese Journal of Chromatography ›› 2019, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 32-39.DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1123.2018.07019

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Determination of 10 perfluorinated carboxylic acid compounds in water by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry coupled with negative chemical ionization

WANG Xiaoyan1, SHEN Weijian2, WANG Hong2, YU Keyao2, WU Bin2, HU Guoshen2, YANG Gongjun1   

  1. 1. College of Pharmacy, Chian Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China;
    2. Animal, Plant and Food Inspection Center, Nanjing Customs, Nanjing 210009, China
  • Received:2018-07-20 Online:2019-01-08 Published:2014-11-29
  • Supported by:

    Yangtze River Delta Project (No. 17395810102); China-Malaysia Cooperation Project (No. PORTSIM061/2017).

Abstract:

A method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 10 perfluorinated carboxylic acid compounds in water by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry coupled with negative chemical ionization (GC-NCI-MS). Perfluorinated carboxylic acid compounds were derivatized by trifluoro-N-methyl-N-(trimethylsilyl) acetamide (MSTFA) as the trimethylsilyl derivatization reagent. The water sample was purified and enriched through a weak anion exchange solid phase extraction column and analyzed via GC-NCI-MS. The sample pretreatment, derivation and instrument conditions were optimized. The results showed that the linearity of the 10 perfluorinated carboxylic acid compounds was good in the range of 0.1-10 mg/L with correlation coefficients of 0.9956-0.9993. The limits of detection (LODs) and limits of quantification (LOQs) were 0.5-1.5 μg/L and 1.5-4.5 μg/L, respectively. The spiked recoveries of the blank samples ranged from 70.2% to 112.6% with the relative standard deviations (RSDs) between 2.1% and 14.5% (n=6). The method is simple, sensitive, accurate and precise, and can be used to detect the 10 perfluorinated carboxylic acid compounds in water.

Key words: gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), negative chemical ionization (NCI), perfluorinated carboxylic acid compounds, solid phase extraction (SPE), water

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