Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 395, Issue 5, Pages 1525-1532Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-009-3100-6
Keywords
Partition coefficient; Polar organic compounds; Fulvic acid; Sediment; Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide); Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
Funding
- European Union [003956]
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A novel plastic material, poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide) (PEVAC), was evaluated as an absorptive passive equilibrium sampler for determination of the freely dissolved fraction of seven polar organic contaminants (POCs) in the presence of fulvic acid and sediment. The seven compounds selected were imidacloprid, carbendazim, metoprolol, atrazin, carbamazepine, diazinon and chlorpyrifos, i.e. a mixture of pharmaceuticals and pesticides having logarithmic octanol/water partition coefficients (log K (OW)) ranging from 0.2 to 4.77. The experiments demonstrated that the PEVAC sampler is well suited for determination of the freely dissolved fraction of chemicals in aquatic environments. Generally, the freely dissolved fraction of the POCs decreased with increasing hydrophobicity. However, strong interactions with functional groups of the organic matter seemed to dominate the partitioning for imidacloprid and carbendazim, having logarithmic dissociation partition coefficient log D < 1.47, and for metoprolol, which is positively charged at neutral pH.
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