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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 91, Issue 6, Pages 505-515Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03067310903582341
Keywords
off-flavour compounds; solid-phase microextraction; gas chromatography; ion trap mass spectrometry
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This paper describes a method of determining the following compounds in water characterised by complex matrices (raw waters and drinking waters): geosmin, 2-methylisoborneol (2-MIB), 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (IBM), 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (IPM) and 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA). The method is carried out using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) combined with gas chromatography (GC) and ion trap mass spectrometry (ITMS). Several parameters of extraction and desorption were optimised through the use of a Combi PAL autosampler to automate various tasks (temperature extraction, extraction time, stir speed). Quantities of NaCl and the liquid volume/total volume ratio were also optimised. Double fragmentation (tandem MS/MS) was optimised on the target compounds. The method resulted in good linearity obtained for concentrations of 1 to 100 ng L-1 and provided detection limits of approximately below 1 ng L-1. Good precision (1-8%) was obtained. This method was successfully applied to the analysis of earthy and musty odours in municipal raw source waters with high concentrations of natural organic matter and in the corresponding treated waters. This is the first time MS/MS has been used to analyse odorous compounds in waters destined for human consumption. In addition, the method as developed is simple to use and lends itself to easy interpretation of chromatograms.
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