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TALANTA
Volume 63, Issue 5, Pages 1231-1240Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2004.05.043
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polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs); polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs); coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (cPCBs); comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC x GC); time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS)
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Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with isotope-dilution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC x GC-IDTOFMS) was used to measure polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (PCDD), polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDF), and coplanar polychlorinated biphenyl (cPCB) concentrations in ash, sediment, vegetation, and fish samples. The GC x GC capability was achieved by using a quad jet, dual stage, thermal modulator. Zone compression of the GC peaks from modulation resulted in a significant increase of the signal intensity over classical GC-IDTOFMS. The GC x GC column set used an Rtx-Dioxin 2 phase as the first dimension (D-1) and an Rtx-500 as the second dimension (D-2). The chromatographic separation of the 17 PCDD/Fs and the 4 cPCBs was attained in D-1 except for 2,3,7,8-TCDD and CB126 for which deconvoluted ion currents (DIC) were required to be reported separately. The Rtx-500 phase separated the bulk matrix interfering compounds from the target analytes in D-2. The instrumental limit of detection (iLODs) was 0.5 pg for 2,3,7,8-TCDD. The calibration curves showed good correlation coefficients for all the compounds investigated in the concentration range of 0.5-200 pg. GC x GC-IDTOFMS results compared favorably to those from conventional isotope-dilution one-dimensional gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (GC-IDHRMS). The comprehensive mass analysis of the TOFMS further permitted the identification of other contaminants of concern in the samples. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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