Simultaneous Measurement of Free and Total Concentrations of Hydrophobic Compounds
Simultaneous Measurement of Free and Total Concentrations of Hydrophobic Compounds
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DOI:
10.1021/es8037033
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发表时间:
2009-05-15
影响因子:
11.4
通讯作者:
Gan, Jay
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作者:
Bondarenko, Svetlana;Gan, Jay
Hydrophobic contaminants partition between water and sorbent phases such as dissolved organic matter (DOM) in environmental matrices. Consideration of bioavailability increasingly requires the measurement of freely dissolved concentration (C-free) in addition to the total chemical concentration (C-total). However, current practices require the use of separate methods and samples to derive C-free and C-total, and no method affords simultaneous measurement of both concentrations. We employed a method by coupling solid-phase microextraction (SPME) with the use of an isotope-labeled internal standard and gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) for detection. The method was demonstrated using 8 pyrethroids as model compounds and C-13-cis-permethrin as the labeled internal standard. Analysis of 4 spiked sediment porewater and ;4 field-contaminated samples showed that C-total obtained by this method was in close agreement with the spiked concentrations or the total concentrations measured after whole-sample solvent extraction, while C-free was only a small fraction of C-total, suggesting pronounced association of these compounds with DOM. The method displayed good reproducibility with average relative standard deviation