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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 72, Issue 19, Pages 4742-4746Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac000267g
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A name ionization detector (FID) combined with capillary gas chromatography (GC/FID) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) has been used to identify multifunctional carbonyls in wet precipitation samples. The carbonyl groups were first derivatized to O-benzylhydroxyloxime (BH oxime) by using O-benzylhydroxylamine. The BH oxime derivatives were then treated with N,O-bis(trimethylsilyl)acetamide for the hydroxyl group to derive their TMS ethers. The BH oxime/TMS derivatives were measured using GC/FID as well as GC/MS on positive EI and CI (isobutane was used as CI gas) modes. Three groups of carbonyl compounds (monoaldehydes, dicarbonyls, hydroxycarbonyls) were identified in the samples by using this method. We have identified, for the first time, a group of alpha- and beta-hydroxycarbonyls, glycolaldehyde, hydroxyacetone, and 4-hydroxy-2-butanone, in wet precipitation samples. Concentrations of hydroxycarbonyls ranged from 0.9 to 53.8 mu g/L in the precipitation samples. Their concentration level is similar to that of low molecular weight dicarboxylic acids, which have been reported as major water-soluble organic compounds in rain.
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