Journal
ANALYTICAL METHODS
Volume 7, Issue 9, Pages 3967-3971Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ay00341e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21175086, 21175025]
- Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi
- Hundred Talents Program of Shanxi Province
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In this work, we developed a novel quantitative analysis method for detecting nitropolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (nitro-PAHs) in PM2.5 samples with graphene as a matrix using MALDI-TOF MS. A good linearity was obtained for the typical four nitro-PAHs, namely 1-nitropyrene (1-NP), 2-nitrofluorene (2-NFL), 6-nitrochrysene (6-NC) and 9-nitroanthracene (9-NA) with the correlation coefficient better than 0.985 by means of 9-nitroanthracene-d(9) as the internal standard. The average recoveries of this method were from 69.2% to 119.4%, and the inter-day precisions were less than 12.3% with intra-day precisions less than 20.7%. The limits of detection for 1-NP, 2-NFL, 6-NC and 9-NA were 0.74, 8.04, 2.67 and 2.31 ng mu L-1, respectively. We have validated the practicality by the analysis of nitro-PAHs in PM2.5 samples collected during haze weather in Taiyuan of China. The mass concentrations of S-nitropyrene, S-nitrofluorene, S-nitrochrysene and S-nitroanthracene on the collected PM2.5 samples were detected at levels of 0.38 to 3.04 ng m(-3), 0.21 to 0.43 ng m(-3), 0.19 to 2.38 ng m(-3), and 9.55 to 16.52 ng m(-3), respectively. The present method proved to be a good candidate for simple, fast and ecofriendly determination of nitro-PAHs by using MALDI-TOF MS coupled with an internal standard method.
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