Determination of 11 Phenolic Endocrine Disruptors using Gas
Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry-Selected Ion Monitoring in Five
Selected Wastewater Influents |
Hyub Kim† |
Department of Research and Development, Korean Pharmacopuncture Institute, Seoul 157-200, South Korea |
Corresponding Author:
Hyub Kim ,Tel: +82-2-2658-9051-3, Fax: +82-2-2658-9136, Email: khlyj2004@dreamwiz.com |
Received: September 14, 2008; Accepted: November 16, 2008. |
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ABSTRACT |
An efficient method for the simultaneous determination of eleven phenolic endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) present in wastewater influent
samples was described. The 11 phenolic EDCs including alkylphenols, chlorophenols, and bisphenol A were determined by gas chromatography/
mass spectrometry-selected ion monitoring (GC/MS-SIM) following two work-up methods for comparison; isobutoxycarbonyl (isoBOC)
derivatization and tert-butyldimethylsilyl (TBDMS) derivatization. The wastewater influent samples containing the 11 EDCs were adjusted to pH 2
with H2SO4 and then cleaned up with n-hexane. Next, they were subjected to solid-phase extraction (SPE) with XAD-4 resin and subsequently
converted to isoBOC or TBDMS derivatives for sensitivity analysis with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-selected ion monitoring (GC/MSSIM).
Following isoBOC derivatization and TBDMS derivatization, the recoveries were 86.6-105.2% and 97.6-142.7%, the limits of quantitation
(LOQ) for the 11 phenolic EDCs for SIM was 0.001-0.050 ng/mL and 0.003-0.050 ng/mL, and the SIM responses were linear with the correlation
coefficient varying by 0.9717-0.9995 and 0.9842-0.9980, respectively. When these methods were applied to five selected wastewater influent
samples, for isoBOC derivatization and TBDMS derivatization the ranges of concentration detected were 0.2-99.6 ng/mL and 0.4-147.4 ng/mL,
respectively. |
Keywords:
Endocrine disrupting chemicals | IsoBOC | TBDMS | Wastewater influent samples |
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