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Environmental and food applications of LC-tandem mass spectrometry in pesticide-residue analysis: An overview
2003
An overview is given on pesticide-residue determination in environmental and food samples by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS). Pesticides comprise a large number of substances that belong to many completely different chemical groups, the only common characteristic is that they are effective against pests. They still constitute a challenge in MS because there is no collective pathway for fragmentation. A brief introduction to the theory of tandem MS permits a discussion of which parameters influence the ionization efficiency when the ions are subjected to different actions. Emphasis is placed on the different tandem MS instruments: triple and ion-trap quad…
Rapid and sensitive ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the quantification of amitraz and ident…
2008
Liquid chromatography under high pressure in combination with quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (QqTOF-MS and MS/MS) has been used to detect amitraz degradation products in pears, to characterize their structures, and to evaluate their occurrences in samples of different origins. Using the proposed approach, the parent pesticide and four degradation products were identified. To this end, pear samples were extracted with ethyl acetate and anhydrous sodium sulphate. Amitraz was found to be rapidly decomposed into four related compounds, of which N-(2,4-dimethylphenyl)formamidine (DMPF) was the most abundant and persistent. N,N'-bisdimethylphenylformamidine (BDMPF), 2,4-dimethylforma…
Development of monoclonal antibody-based competitive immunoassays for the detection of picoxystrobin in cereal and oilseed flours
2012
Picoxystrobin is a new generation fungicide primarily developed to be used in cereal crops. In the present study a novel collection of specific monoclonal antibodies has been produced using different immunizing haptens based on a carboxy-functionalized identical spacer arm attached to alternative positions of the target pesticide molecule. Two competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays have been developed employing hapten heterology, one using the antibody-coated direct format and the other in the conjugate-coated indirect format. Both immunoassays have been characterized in terms of selectivity, solvent tolerance, and buffer conditions, affording similar limits of detection at or below…
MICELLAR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF ANTI-CONVULSANT DRUGS IN PILLS AND CAPSULES
2000
A simple chromatographic procedure is reported for the determination of several anti-convulsant drugs in pharmaceuticals: carbamazepine, and the benzodiazepines bentazepam, halazepam, oxazepam, pinazepam, and tetrazepam. The procedure utilizes a C18 column, a hybrid micellar mobile phase of 0.1 M SDS-3% butanol-0.1% triethylamine-0.01 M phosphate buffer (pH 3), and UV detection (230 nm). The drugs eluted in less than 13 min, in accordance to their relative polarities, as indicated by their octanol-water partition coefficients. The limits of detection (μg/mL), and intra and inter-day repeatabilities (%), for 4 μg/mL were: carbamazepine (0.03, 1.0, 4.1), bentazepam (0.05, 1.3, 1.6), halazepam…
Automated on-line in-tube solid-phase microextraction-assisted derivatization coupled to liquid chromatography for quantifying residual dimethylamine…
2008
Abstract A method for the analysis of dimethylamine (DMA) by automated in-tube solid-phase microextraction (IT-SPME)-supported chemical derivatization coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography was developed. Extraction, derivatization and desorption were studied by using a capillary coated with 95% polydimethylsiloxane and 5% polydiphenylsiloxane. Solution derivatization and automated IT-SPME derivatization using 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC) were compared. The proposed procedure provided adequate linearity, accuracy and precision in the 0.2–2.0 μg/mL concentration interval, and the limit of detection (LOD) was 50 ng/mL. The main advantages of the proposed procedure are: …
Simultaneous detection of hazardous skin whitening agents in Indian cosmetic products using a green chromatographic technique
2021
The present work mainly highlights the simultaneous detection of four skin whitening agents i.e. hydroquinone (HQ), resorcinol (RS), catechol (CC) and 3,3′-dichlorobenzidine (DCB) in facial creams and body lotion. Among these, the first three are positional isomers of dihydroxybenzene so simultaneous separation is difficult with the conventional reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic technique (RP-HPLC). The selected skin whitening agents were detected in facial cream and body lotion using micellar liquid chromatography coupled to a photodiode array detector (MLC-PDA). In the present study, optimization of the method was accomplished using response surface methodology (RSM) w…
Development of a simple and low cost device for vapour phase Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometry determination of ethanol in mouthwashes
2006
Abstract A new vapour phase manifold coupled with Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was developed for ethanol determination in mouthwashes. Two microliters of samples were injected, without any previous pre-treatment into a reactor heated at 70 °C, and the vapour phase generated transported to the FTIR spectrometer using a carrier nitrogen flow of 6 ml min−1. FTIR spectra were continuously recorded, as a function of time, by accumulating two scans and employing 8 cm−1 nominal resolution. Analytical measurements for ethanol were made in the range from 1130 to 992 cm−1 with a baseline defined between 1158 and 957 cm−1. After ethanol measurement the carrier flow was increased to 3…
FT–Raman spectrometry determination of Malathion in pesticide formulations
2003
Abstract A fast and environmentally friendly method has been developed for Fourier transform–Raman (FT–Raman) spectrometry determination of Malathion in pesticide emulsifiable concentrate formulations. The method is based on the measurement of intensity peak height values at 1737 cm −1 Raman shift corrected using a baseline defined at 1900 cm −1 . Samples were diluted with CHCl 3 and the FT–Raman spectra collected in back-scattering mode over 3.3 min at a nominal resolution of 4 cm −1 accumulating 50 scans per spectra and using a laser power of 1250 mW. The developed procedure provided a limit of detection of 1.8% w/w in the original sample. Results found by FT–Raman spectrometry were stati…
An Infrared Method, with Reduced Solvent Consumption, for the Determination of Chlorsulfuron in Pesticide Formulations
2003
A simple method has been developed for the determination of Chlorsulfuron in pesticide formulations by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR). Samples were diluted with CHCl3− , and the FTIR spectra of the samples and standards were obtained at a nominal resolution of 4 cm− 1 from 4000 to 900 cm− 1 with the accumulation of 25 scans. Chlorsulfuron determination was based on the measurement of peak area values from 1373 to 1363 cm− 1 which were corrected by use of a two points baseline defined from 1401 to 1302 cm− 1. The limit of detection achieved, which was of the order of 6 µg g− 1, was appropriate for the determination of Chlorsulfuron in commercially available formulations. FTIR results were…
Supercritical fluid chromatography in drug analysis: A literature survey
1996
The applications of supercritical fluid chromatography to the analysis of drugs have been carefully revised from the literature compiled in the Analytical Abstracts until March 1994. Easy-to-read tables provide useful information about the state-of-the-art and possibilities offered by SFC in pharmaceutical analysis. The tables comprise extensive data about samples analyzed, pharmaceutical principles determined, solvents used and sample quantity injected, supercritical fluids and modifiers employed, injection system, instrumentation, experimental conditions for chromatographic separations (density, pressure, flow, temperature), characteristics of columns employed (type, support, length, diam…