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TALANTA
Volume 69, Issue 3, Pages 716-723Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.11.013
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solid-phase microextraction; trimethylamine; liquid chromatography; water; air
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This work describes a new approach for the determination of trimethylamine (TMA) in water and air by liquid chromatography (LC). The assay is based on the employment of a solid-phase microextraction (SPME) fiber for sampling and for derivatization of the analyte with the fluorogenic reagent 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC). The fiber, with a Carbowax-templated resin -50 mu m coating, was first immersed into a solution of the reagent. Once loaded with the reagent, the fiber was immersed into the water samples or exposed to the air samples in order to extract and to derivatize the analyte. Finally, the fiber was placed into a HPLC-SPME interface to desorb and transfer the TMA-FMOC derivative to the LC equipment. A comparative study of the analytical characteristics of the procedure in water and air samples was carried out. Under optimized conditions, the proposed approach permits the quantification of TMA in solution within the 1.0-10.0 mu g/ml interval and in air within the 25-200 mg/m(3) interval. The limits of detection were 0.25 mu g/ml and 12 mg/m(3) (25 degrees C, 1.013 x 10(-5) Pa) in water and air, respectively. The utility of the proposed method for determining TMA in different kind of samples is discussed. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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