Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 928, Issue 2, Pages 187-199Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9673(01)01133-5
Keywords
flame photometric detection; detection, LC; chemical warfare agents; alkylphosphonic acids; thiodiglycol
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Microcolumn liquid chromatography (mu LC) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled on-line with flame photometric detection (FPD) have been used for the screening of polar breakdown products of chemical warfare agents in water and soil samples, provided during Official Proficiency Tests organized by the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. CE-FPD is shown to be a powerful and rapid method for the determination of alkylphosphonic acids, which are the breakdown products of organophosphorus nerve agents. Gradient elution mu LC-FPD is more sensitive and robust but less rapid in the determination of these compounds. In addition, mu LC-FPD can be applied to screen for hydrolysis products of sulfur mustard and its analogues. Both methods can be applied without prior derivatization and are extremely selective. In order to unambiguously identify the relevant compounds, electrospray ionization (tandem) mass spectrometry, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry were applied. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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