Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1181, Issue 1-2, Pages 77-82Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2007.12.050
Keywords
speciation; mercury; high-performance liquid chromatography; atomic fluorescence spectroscopy; photo-induced chemical vapour generation; formic acid
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Photo-induced chemical vapour generation (CVG) with formic acid in mobile phase as reaction reagent was developed as interface to online couple HPLC with atomic fluorescence spectrometry for the separation and determination of inorganic mercury, methylmercury (MeHg), ethylmercury (EtHg) and phenylmercury (PhHg). In the developed procedure, formic acid in mobile phase was used to decompose organomercuries and reduce Hg2+ to mercury cold vapour under UV irradiation. Therefore, no post-column reagent was used and the flow injection system in traditional procedure is omitted. A number of operating parameters including pH of mobile phase, concentration of formate, flow rate of mobile phase, length of PTFE reaction coil, flow rate of carrier gas and Na2S2O3 in sample matrix were optimized. The limits of detection at the optimized conditions were 0.085, 0.033, 0.029 and 0.038 mu g L-1 for inorganic mercury, MeHg, EtHg and PhHg, respectively. The developed method was validated by determination of certified reference material DORM-2 and was further applied in analyses of seafood samples from Yantai port, China. The UV-CVG with formic acid simplifies the instrumentation and reduces the analytical cost significantly. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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