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Simultaneous determination of methyl- and ethyl-mercury by solid-phase microextraction followed by gas chromatography atomic fluorescence detection

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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
卷 1216, 期 51, 页码 8828-8834

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2009.10.043

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Methylmercury; Ethylmercury; Py-AFS; Detection parameters; Multivariate optimization; Biota matrixes

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  1. Spanish Ministry of Environment, the Catalan Agency of Water
  2. Fundacion BBVA [BIOCON06/113]

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A method for trace level determination of organomercury species in different biota matrixes by using aqueous-phase propylation followed by headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) and gas chromatography (GC) coupled to pyrolysis-atomic fluorescence spectrometry (Py-AFS) detection has been optimized. To maximize peak area and symmetry factors of methylmercury (MeHg) and ethylmercury (EtHg) analyzed as propyl derivatives, carrier and make-up flow rates were optimized by a user-defined experimental design. A multiple response simultaneous optimization was applied using the desirability function to achieve global optimal operating conditions. They were attained at 2 and 6 mL min(-1) as carrier and make-up gas flow rates, respectively. In addition, pyrolyser temperature was also optimized, yielding the best value at 750 degrees C. Limits of detection and quantification at the optimum conditions were 0.04 ng g(-1) and 0.13 ng g(-1) for both, MeHg and EtHg. The developed analytical procedure was validated with a certified reference material (DORM-2)and applied to the determination of organomercury incurred in waterfowl egg and fish samples. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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