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Identification and characterization of impurities in an insecticide, bifenthrin technical
Author(s) -
Kannoujia Jyoti,
Bangalore Pavan Kumar,
Kantevari Srinivas,
Sripadi Prabhakar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of mass spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9888
pISSN - 1076-5174
DOI - 10.1002/jms.4605
Subject(s) - chemistry , bifenthrin , chromatography , impurity , high performance liquid chromatography , mass spectrometry , atmospheric pressure chemical ionization , chemical ionization , mass spectrum , analytical chemistry (journal) , ionization , ion , pesticide , organic chemistry , agronomy , biology
The HPLC‐DAD and GC/MS methods were successfully used for the identification and characterization of the impurities in an agrochemical insecticide, bifenthrin technical. Three impurities ranging from 0.175%–0.541% were detected by the HPLC‐DAD method. The LC/MS technique with ESI or APCI source failed to detect the impurities detected by HPLC‐DAD, due to lack of ionization in ESI or APCI. The three impurities were enriched by prep‐HPLC, and then their structures were elucidated based on the GC/EIMS and CIMS data. The EI mass spectra of bifenthrin and its impurities displayed molecular ion and provided structure indicative fragment ions; the CIMS data further confirmed their molecular weight. The identity of the impurity 1 was further confirmed by the synthesis of the authentic sample followed by NMR and GC/MS data.