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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 632, Issue 1, Pages 148-155Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2008.10.047
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Sample stacking; Terephthalic acid; Aromatic acid impurities; Microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography
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- National Science Council of Taiwan [NSC-95-2113-M-033013-MY3]
- Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan [CYCU-97-CR-CH]
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In this study, a sample stacking step coupled with microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) was used to detect and analyze nine aromatic acids (benzoic acid (BA), isophthalic acid (IPA), terephthalic acid (TPA), p-toluic acid (p-TA), 4-carboxylbenzaldehyde (4-CBA), trimesic acid (TSA), trimellitic acid (TMA), o-phthalic acid (OPA). and hemimellitic acid (HMA)) which are common impurities produced during aromatic acid synthesis. First, the presence of both acid and water plugs at the front of the capillary improved the reproducibility in retention time and peak intensity of the tested analytes in the stacking method. Second, the pH and the electrolyte type of acidic plug and sample matrix were found to be the predominant influences on the aromatic acid stacking. The detection limits of these aromatic acids were reduced to the range of 0.00007-0.00032 mu g mL(-1) by this optimal sample stacking step. This proposed on-line concentration MEEK method was able to detect trace levels of aromatic acid impurities in commercial aromatic acid products that were not previously possible by the normal MEEK method. Furthermore, these results in comparison with our previous studies on sample stacking MEEKC method indicated that all acidic species were concentrated by this simple stacking procedure. The sensitivity enhancement, however, was highly dependent on the types of functional groups present in the structures of analytes, and the enhancement was in the order of first the compounds carrying both carboxy and hydroxy groups (e.g. phenolic acid), followed by carboxylic acid compounds (e.g. aromatic acid), and then phenol compounds (e.g. polyphenol). (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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