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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1064, Issue 2, Pages 219-226Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2004.12.047
Keywords
chloro-s-triazines; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; solid-phase extraction
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Chloro-s-triazines are a class of compounds comprising atrazine, simazine, propazine, cyanazine and their chlorinated metabolites. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that selected chloro-s-triazines - atrazine, simazine, propazine, deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine, and didealkylatrazine - have a common mode of toxicity related to endocrine disruption. In this paper, a dual-resin solid-phase extraction (SPE) gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method is reported that provides for each of these chloro-s-triazines including the polar metabolite, didealkylatrazine. The method utilizes deuterated internal standards for quantitation and terbuthylazine as a recovery standard. The limit-of-detection was 0.01 mug/L for simazine, deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine and didealkylatrazine, and 0.02 mug/L for atrazine and propazine in surface water. Mean recoveries for 0.5 and 3.0 mug/L spikes for atrazine, simazine, propazine, deethylatrazine, deisopropylatrazine and didealkylatrazine were 94,104, 103, 110,108 and 102%, respectively, in surface water. The method was also validated by matrix spikes into fourteen different raw and treated natural surface waters. This method is useful for monitoring total chloro-s-triazines in both raw and treated drinking waters. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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