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Ionic liquid as a mobile phase additive in high‐performance liquid chromatography for the simultaneous determination of eleven fluorescent whitening agents in paper materials
Author(s) -
Wang Qing,
Chen Xianbo,
Qiu Bin,
Zhou Liang,
Zhang Hui,
Xie Juan,
Luo Yan,
Wang Bin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of separation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.72
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1615-9314
pISSN - 1615-9306
DOI - 10.1002/jssc.201501050
Subject(s) - ionic liquid , chromatography , chemistry , analyte , fluorescence , detection limit , phase (matter) , bromide , high performance liquid chromatography , tetrafluoroborate , analytical chemistry (journal) , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , quantum mechanics
In the present study, 11 4,4′‐diaminostilbene‐2,2′‐disulfonic acid based fluorescent whitening agents with different numbers of sulfonic acid groups were separated by using an ionic liquid as a mobile phase additive in high‐performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection. The effects of ionic liquid concentration, pH of mobile phase B, and composition of mobile phase A on the separation of fluorescent whitening agents were systematically investigated. The ionic liquid tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate is superior to tetrabutylammomnium bromide for the separation of the fluorescent whitening agents. The optimal separation conditions were an ionic liquid concentration at 8 mM and the pH of mobile phase B at 8.5 with methanol as mobile phase A. The established method exhibited low limits of detection (0.04–0.07 ng/mL) and wide linearity ranges (0.30–20 ng/mL) with high linear correlation coefficients from 0.9994 to 0.9998. The optimized procedure was applied to analyze target analytes in paper samples with satisfactory results. Eleven target analytes were quantified, and the recoveries of spiked paper samples were in the range of 85–105% with the relative standard deviations from 2.1 to 5.1%. The obtained results indicated that the method was efficient for detection of 11 fluorescent whitening agents.