Citation: Weifei Zhang, Xuexia Lin, Hai-Fang Li, Zhihua Wang, Jin-Ming Lin. Determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in river water by combination of liquid-liquid extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2014, 25(9): 1225-1229. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2014.04.014 shu

Determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in river water by combination of liquid-liquid extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

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a Department of Chemistry, Beijing Key Laboratory of Microanalytical Methods and Instrumentation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
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b State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China

Corresponding author: Jin-Ming Lin,
Received Date: 25 February 2014
Available Online: 9 April 2014

In this work, a reliable and sensitive method for detecting polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) has been developed by the combination of liquid-liquid extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. PBDEs were extracted from a large volume of water by liquid-liquid extraction and purified by silica gel chromatography. In order to reduce the deviation, dibromobiphenyl was exploited as the internal standard to minimize differences among the injections. The quantification was performed using an external standard. Good linear correlation coefficients (>0.991) and a wide linearity range (1.0-500.0 ng/L) indicated the steadiness of the proposed method. Moreover, the satisfactory recovery (>75%) suggested that successful determination of PBDEs in river water had been achieved. Furthermore, the deduction behavior of PBDEs in river water could be inferred according to the results.
- Polybrominated diphenyl ethers,
- Dibromobiphenyl,
- GC-MS,
- Liquid-liquid extraction
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