Mass spectrometry organic compound detection

Recent studies, including the use of Microtox and ToxAlert test kits [55,56], were carried out for the determination of the toxicity of some non-ionic surfactants and other compounds (aromatic hydrocarbons, endocrine disruptors) before implementation on raw and treated wastewater, followed by the identification and quantification of polar organic cytotoxic substances for samples with more than 20% inhibition. Furthermore, the study of their contribution to the total toxicity was obtained using sequential solid-phase extraction (SSPE) before liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) detection. This combined procedure allows one to focus only on samples containing toxic substances. 

The Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Division of the Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control, is developing methods for the analysis of bromomethane and other volatile organic compounds in blood. These methods use purge and trap methodology and magnetic mass spectrometry which gives detection limits in the low parts per trillion range. 

The organic fraction present in atmospheric particles is a highly complex mixture, which makes the speciation of individual compounds a difficult task. The traditional analytical approach has usually been solvent extraction of aerosol particles collected in a filter followed by gas chromatographic separation coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detection for individual compound identification and quantification. Although a large number of compounds, sometimes in trace amounts, have been... 

Other applications of high performance liquid chromatography mass spectrometry to the detection of organic compounds are reviewed in Table 5.1. 

Schramm, E., et al. (2009) Trace detection of organic compounds in complex sample matrixes by single photon ionization ion trap mass spectrometry real-time detection of security-relevant compounds and online analysis of the coffee-roasting process. Analytical Chemistry, 81, 4456-4467. 

Tungsten oxide is not the only nanomaterial that forms unusual morphologies in benzyl alcohol. Another example is ZnO that grows into fan-like nanorod bundles [168]. The chemical formation mechanism, elaborated from the analysis of the organic compounds detected by GC coupled with mass spectrometry, involved a nucleophilic attack of the hydroxyl function of benzyl alcohol on one of the carbonyl groups of the acetylacetonate ligand of the precursor molecule (Scheme 2.4). Release of acetone (in its enol form) and benzyl acetate resulted in the formation of a zinc hydroxyl species, which then underwent condensation to a Zn—O—Zn bridge. 

Chicarelli, M. I., Eckardt, C. B., Owen, C. R., Maxwell, J. R., Eglinton, G., Hutton, R. C., and Eaton, A. N. (1990). Application of inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry in the detection of organometallic compounds in chromatographic fractions from organic rich shales. Org. Geochem. 15(3), 267. 

Warneke, C., de Gouw, J. A., Lovejoy, E. R. et al. (2005) Development of proton-transfer ion trap-mass spectrometry on-line detection and identification of volatile organic compounds in air. / Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. 16, 1316. 

Principles and Characteristics Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) is an instrumental technique for the detection and characterisation of organic compounds as vapours at atmospheric pressure. Modern analytical IMS was created at the end of the 1960s from studies on ion-molecule chemistry with mass spectrometers and from ionisation detectors for vapour monitoring. An ion mobility spectrometer (or plasma chromatograph in the original termininology) was first produced in 1970 [272],... 

Organic compounds polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, in particular phenan-threne (C14H10), pyrene (Ci6Hjo) and chrysene (CisH ), which were detected using high resolution mass spectrometry. 

Flegal and Stukas [406] described the special sampling and processing techniques necessary for the prevention of lead contamination of seawater samples, prior to stable lead isotopic ratio measurements by thermal ionisation mass spectrometry. Techniques are also required to compensate for the absence of an internal standard and the presence of refractory organic compounds. The precision of the analyses is 0.1 -0.4% and a detection limit of 0.02 ng/kg allows the tracing of lead inputs and biogeochemical cycles. 

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