A method has been developed for the determination of acrylamide at the picogram per cubic metre level in particulate-phase outdoor aerosol using highperformance liquid chromatography with triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometric detection. Acrylamide was identified by positive ion electrospray mass spectrometry using m/z 72.00/54.90 as monitoring ion transition. The limit of detection, defined as three times the standard deviation of the procedural blanks, was 0.4 pg m-3 (173 pg absolute amount injected); the repeatability was 8% (evaluated as the relative standard deviation of five consecutive measurements on cleaned quartz fibre filters of acrylamide standard spikes) and the recovery was 52
Acrylamide determination in atmospheric particulate matter by high-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry
Zangrando R;Gambaro A;Gabrieli J;Barbaro E;Barbante C;Cescon;
2012
Abstract
A method has been developed for the determination of acrylamide at the picogram per cubic metre level in particulate-phase outdoor aerosol using highperformance liquid chromatography with triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometric detection. Acrylamide was identified by positive ion electrospray mass spectrometry using m/z 72.00/54.90 as monitoring ion transition. The limit of detection, defined as three times the standard deviation of the procedural blanks, was 0.4 pg m-3 (173 pg absolute amount injected); the repeatability was 8% (evaluated as the relative standard deviation of five consecutive measurements on cleaned quartz fibre filters of acrylamide standard spikes) and the recovery was 52I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
