Journal
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 663, Issue 1, Pages 49-54Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2010.01.036
Keywords
Free-base nicotine; Cigarette; Mainstream tobacco smoke; Solid-phase microextraction; Headspace; Gas chromatography
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- Health Canada [H4133-070511/001/SS]
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The content of free-base nicotine in cigarette smoke is a controversial Subject, partly due to methodological issues. In this investigation, an improved method to measure free-base nicotine in cigarette smoke using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) combined with GC/MS analysis, was developed and validated for this purpose. Cigarette smoke particulate phase (PP) was collected onto a 44 mill glass fiber filter pad. The pad was cut in halves with one half Used to determine the concentrations of total nicotine and water. The remaining half was analyzed by HS-SPME for free-base nicotine. The following factors were found to have a significant impact oil the responses of free-base nicotine: SPME fiber type, pre-equilibrium time before HS-SPME, extraction time and temperature, PP water content, and the solvent used for the preparation of standards. It was also found that the impact of PP water content oil the determination of free-base nicotine from smoke sample could be corrected by a water correction factor calculated based oil an experimentally determined reciprocal model. The precision of the method was evaluated with smoke samples of reference cigarettes: Canadian flue-cured monitor and Kentucky reference 2R4F. The RSD Values obtained were in the 12.8-16.8% range. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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