Liquid Chromatographic Determination of 1,3,5-Trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine and 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene in Human Plasma and Groundwater Samples Utilizing Microextraction in Packed Syringe

Bansal, Pooja and Nidhi, Gaurav and Malik, Ashok Kumar and Matysik, Frank-Michael (2012) Liquid Chromatographic Determination of 1,3,5-Trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine and 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene in Human Plasma and Groundwater Samples Utilizing Microextraction in Packed Syringe. CHROMATOGRAPHIA, 75 (13-14). pp. 739-745. ISSN 0009-5893, 1612-1112

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Abstract

A rapid and efficient analytical method suitable for the simultaneous determination of 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) and 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) in groundwater and human plasma samples using liquid chromatography with UV detection (LC-UV) has been developed. RDX and TNT were baseline separated within time span of 4.8 min on a reverse phase C-18 analytical column with water acetonitrile mixture in ratio 30:70 (v/v) as mobile phase. The UV detection was carried out at 234 nm. A sample preparation method for biological and environmental matrices using microextraction by packed sorbent (MEPS) technique has been implemented, employing 4 mg of C-18 silica sorbent inserted into a microvolume syringe and using only 30 mu L of plasma and groundwater samples. Several factors affecting the performance of MEPS, such as number of extraction cycles, washing solvent volume, elution solvent volume and carryover etc., were optimized. Limits of detection were 0.0997 and 0.0628 ng mL(-1) for RDX and TNT, respectively. The extraction yields were satisfactory for both analytes (> 81.2 %) as well as the precision data, which were always in the low percentage of relative standard deviation values (< 5.6 % , n = 6). The present method is miniaturized, fully automated, and robust which can be easily used for forensic studies of explosives in environmental and biological samples.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: MOLECULARLY IMPRINTED POLYMER; FORMER AMMUNITION PLANTS; MASS-SPECTROMETRY; QUANTITATIVE-ANALYSIS; ORGANIC EXPLOSIVES; URINE SAMPLES; ONLINE; GAS; EXTRACTION; SORBENT; HPLC; RDX; TNT; Explosives; Microextraction; MEPS
Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences
Divisions: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Analytische Chemie, Chemo- und Biosensorik > Instrumentelle Analytik (Prof. Frank-Michael Matysik)
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 11 May 2020 07:20
Last Modified: 11 May 2020 07:20
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/18520

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