Determination of Organic Acids in Ground Water by Liquid Chromatography/Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization/Mass Spectrometry
作者:
Jiasong Fang,
Michael J. Barcelona,
期刊:
Analytical Letters
(Taylor Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 32,
issue 7
页码: 1459-1473
ISSN:0003-2719
年代: 1999
DOI:10.1080/00032719908542910
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Ground water;organic acids;liquid chromatography;mass spectrometry
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Current methods of determining organic acids in ground water are labor-intensive, time-consuming and require a large volume of sample (100 milliliter to 1.0 liter). This paper reports a new method developed to determine aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic acids in ground water using liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization/mass spectrometry (LC/APCI/MS). This method was shown to be fast (less than 1 hour), effective, and reproducible, requiring only 1.0 mL of ground-water sample. Ground water was pH-adjusted, filtered through 0.45 μm filters and directly injected into the LC. A binary solvent system consisting of 40 mM of aqueous ammonium acetate and methanol and a C18 column were used for chromatographical separation. The APCI was operated under negative ionization mode. Selected ion monitoring (SIM) was used for detection and quantitation of the analytes. This method was applied to the analysis of organic acids in ground-water samples collected from an aquifer contaminated with JP-4 fuel hydrocarbons at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan. Aromatic acids identified in the contaminated ground water includeo-, m-toluic acids (2- and 3-methylbenzoic acids), 2,6-dimethylbenzoic acid, 2,3,5- and 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoic acids and two additional trimethylbenzoic acids with unknown location of methylation. The detection of aromatic acids in groundwater from the KC-135 site provided evidence forin situmicrobial degradation of hydrocarbons occurring in the aquifer.
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