Journal
ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 406, Issue 21, Pages 5137-5145Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-014-7809-5
Keywords
Phosgene; Air sampling; Tenax tube; Derivatization; Thermal desorption
Funding
- Direction Generale de l'Armement (DGA)
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A new rapid, sensitive and reliable method was developed for the determination of phosgene in air samples using thermal desorption (TD) followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The method is based on a fast (10 min) active sampling of only 1 L of air onto a TenaxA (R) GR tube doped with 0.5 mL of derivatizing mixture containing dimercaptotoluene and triethylamine in hexane solution. Validation of the TD-GC-MS method showed a low limit of detection (40 ppbv), acceptable repeatability, intermediate fidelity (relative standard deviation within 12 %) and excellent accuracy (> 95 %). Linearity was demonstrated for two concentration ranges (0.04 to 2.5 ppmv and 2.5 to 10 ppmv) owing to variation of derivatization recovery between low and high concentration levels. Due to its simple on-site implementation and its close similarity with recommended operating procedure (ROP) for chemical warfare agents vapour sampling, the method is particularly useful in the process of verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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