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Sensitivity enhancement for nitrophenols using cationic surfactant‐modified activated carbon for solid‐phase extraction surface‐assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
Author(s) -
Chen YuChie,
Tsai MingFei
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
rapid communications in mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.528
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1097-0231
pISSN - 0951-4198
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0231(20001215)14:23<2300::aid-rcm166>3.0.co;2-#
Subject(s) - chemistry , mass spectrometry , cationic polymerization , solid phase extraction , desorption , extraction (chemistry) , pulmonary surfactant , chromatography , activated carbon , analytical chemistry (journal) , adsorption , organic chemistry , biochemistry
Previous work has demonstrated that a combination of solid‐phase extraction with surface‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (SPE‐SALDI) mass spectrometry can be applied to the determination of trace nitrophenols in water. An improved method to lower the detection limit of this hyphenated technique is described in this present study. Activated carbon powder is used as both the SPE adsorbent and the SALDI solid in the analysis by SPE‐SALDI. The surface of the activated carbon is modified by passing an aqueous solution of a cationic surfactant through the SPE cartridge. The results demonstrate that the sensitivity for nitrophenols in the analysis by SPE‐SALDI can be improved by using cationic surfactants to modify the surface of the activated carbon. The detection limit for nitrophenols is about 25 ppt based on a signal‐to‐noise ratio of 3 by sampling from 100 mL of solution. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.