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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 73, Issue 18, Pages 4522-4529Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac010338r
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Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) and electrospray ionization (ESI), together with tandem mass spectrometry (MSn), are used to study the mechanism of chlorination of amines and to develop a method for qualitative and quantitative determination of organic chloramines. Cyclohexylamine and 1,4-butanediamine (putrescine) are used as model compounds to investigate the mechanisms of the reactions between primary aliphatic amines and hypochlorous acid (aqueous Cl-2). The chlorination products are identified and characterized by collision-induced dissociation (CID) and H/D exchange. Chlorination occurs by electrophilic addition of CI+ and may be followed by HCl elimination, hydrolysis, or, in the case of diamines, amine elimination by intramolecular nucleophilic substitution. The relative rates of chlorination at amine and chloramine nitrogens are a function of pH and depend on the basicity of the amine. A novel method for active chlorine quantification using ESI or APCI mass spectrometry is suggested on the basis of the extent of chlorination of a sacrifical amine standard. This measurement has a limit of detection for N-chlorocyclohexylamine in the range of 0.1-10 muM, a linear dynamic range of 10(2)-10(3), and an accuracy of +/- 10%, as determined for wastewater samples.
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