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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 94, Issue 8, Pages 822-836Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03067319.2014.900677
Keywords
chlorobenzoic acids; soil extraction; gas chromatography; chlorobenzoate; derivatisation; polychlorinated biphenyls
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- grant Competence Centre of the Czech Technology Agency [TE01020218]
- Czech Science Foundation [13-28283S]
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Chlorobenzoic acids (CBAs) are the major metabolite of aerobic bacterial degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). A rapid and simple simultaneous derivatisation method has been developed for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry determination in historically PCB-contaminated soils for 15 isomers of mono-, di-, tri-, tetra-, and pentachlorobenzoic acids in CBA mixtures. Two derivatisation agents (diazomethane and methyl chloroformate) and various conditions were evaluated (temperature, time, solvents, catalysts) in terms of efficiency. The optimised derivatisation method with diazomethane and 1% methanol running 1 hour at 5 degrees C was used for derivatisation of extracts of soils and river sediment from historically PCB-contaminated sites; the extracts were prepared using accelerated solvent extraction by a previously described method. Methylated CBAs were separated by gas chromatography using a system with two different common columns, DB-5 and DB-200, in series-coupled (tandem) arrangement and detected by EI-MS. A clean-up with a gel permeation chromatography was carried out to remove soil interfering matrix compounds as well as major portion of PCBs. The limits of quantification ranged between 1 and 10ngg(-1) of individual CBA in the soil. The procedure was applied to various soil samples from Lhenice (Czech Republic) highly contaminated with PCBs. CBAs were found in all tested soils and also in the river sediment. The most contaminated soil contained all CBAs representatives under the study with a total concentration of 3.1 mu gg(-1) of dry soil.
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