Attogram-level detection and relative sensitivity of strong electrophores by gas chromatography with electron capture detection
Attogram-level detection and relative sensitivity of strong electrophores by gas chromatography with electron capture detection
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采用电子捕获检测的气相色谱法对强电泳进行阿克级检测和相对灵敏度
DOI:
10.1021/ac00240a029
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
7.4
通讯作者:
R. Giese
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作者:
J. Corkill;M. Joppich;S. Kuttab;R. Giese
The responses as peak areas of some divergent compounds, most of which are strong electron absorbers, are measured by gas chromatography with electron capture detection (GCECD). The most sensitive compounds are derivatlzed lodothyronines, which are essentially 20-fold more sensitive than lindane./V,/V-Dlpentafluorobenzoylpentafluoroanlline, a somewhat less sensitive but more volatile substance, was selected for determination of a detection limit. The value was 90 ag (1.6 X 10~ 19 mol), largely due to an anomalous Increase In Its response at the trace level. This Increases the reported sensitivity of GC-ECD by 100-fold.Electrophores in the vapor state are molecules or substit-uents which absorb thermal electrons (1, 2). This type of electron uptake takes place in the electron capture detector in both gas chromatography (GC-ECD, eg, ref 3) and liquid chromatography (4), and also negativechemical ionization mass spectrometry (5, 6). Relatively few molecules are both volatile and intensely electrophone. The relative response of different electrophores has been studied previously, as has been reviewed (3, 7, 8), but this work can be extended in several respects. Only a limited variety of electrophoric structures were often examined in any particular study. Certain interesting molecules were not included, such as the derivatlzed iodothyronines (9), or were not com-pared with otherelectrophores, such as flophemesyl (7). Various types of EC detectors and GC-ECD conditions were involved, which can influence the response (8). Thus, it is useful to conduct a sensitivity study of strong electrophores under a set of constant and typical conditions. The conditions employed here are capillary GC with a fused silica column and a constant current, variable frequency, small volume ECD. The purpose of this study is to define the types of structures which are most sensitive as well as volatile by GC-ECD, in order to guide the future development of improved derivatizing agents for GC-ECD and related techniques. The main conclusions reached here are that (1) the derivatized iodothyronines are the most sensitive but least volatile of the compounds examined,(2) the flophemesyl group, which has