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Identifying Citric Acid Esters, a Class of Phthalate Substitute Plasticizers, in Indoor Dust via an Integrated Target, Suspect, and Characteristic Fragment-Dependent Screening Strategy

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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 55, 期 20, 页码 13961-13970

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04402

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citrate acid esters (CAEs); fragmentation characteristics; tributyl aconitate (TBA); indoor dust

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21976088, 22006068]
  2. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20211521, 20180498]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [30919011101, 30920021115]

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This study utilized liquid chromatography coupled with a quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer to analyze indoor dust samples from Nanjing City, China, and found significant levels of citrate acid esters (CAEs) as phthalate substitute plasticizers. The research also identified correlation relationships between the CAEs and other common organic contaminants in dust.
Citrate acid esters (CAEs) have been proposed as a class of phthalate substitute plasticizers; however, information on their occurrence in indoor environments is rare. By using liquid chromatography coupled with a quadrupole-Orbitrap mass spectrometer, we developed an integrated strategy that can be applied for target, suspect, and characteristic fragment-dependent screening of CAEs. In n = 50 indoor dust samples collected from Nanjing City (China), three CAEs, namely, acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC; mean: 412,000 ng/g), tributyl citrate (TBC, 11,600 ng/g), and triethyl citrate (TEC, 10,900 ng/g), exhibited the greatest contamination levels. Total concentrations of CAEs (Sigma(8)CAEs) were statistically significantly (p < 0.01) greater than those of common organophosphate triesters (OPTEs), a class of ubiquitous contaminants in dust. Suspect and characteristic fragment-dependent screening (m/z 111.0078 ([C5H3O3](+)) and m/z 129.0181 ([C5H5O4](+))) of CAEs were further conducted for the same batch of samples. We tentatively identified six novel CAEs, and the most frequent and abundant CAE was fully identified as tributyl aconitate (TBA). Statistically significant correlation relationships were observed on dust levels between TBA vs ATBC (r = 0.650; p < 0.01) and TBA vs TBC (r = 0.384; p < 0.01), suggesting their similar sources in dust samples.

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