Detection of Nine Chlorinated and Brominated Haloacetic Acids at Part-per-Trillion Levels Using ESI-FAIMS-MS
- 24 August 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 72 (19), 4555-4559
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac000341v
Abstract
A combination of electrospray ionization, high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry, and mass spectrometry (ESI-FAIMS-MS) was used for the analysis of a solution containing a mixture of the nine chlorinated and brominated haloacetic acids. For a carrier gas of nitrogen in the FAIMS analyzer, haloacetate anions of the mono- and dihalogenated acids and the decarboxylated anions of three of the trihalogenated acids were detected. No signal was observed for bromodichloroacetic acid (BDCAA) at a dispersion voltage of −3400 V. The addition of a small amount of carbon dioxide to the nitrogen carrier gas resulted in the detection of the pseudomolecular trihaloacetate anions, including BDCA-, and significant increases in sensitivities for the trihalogenated species. The addition of carbon dioxide to the nitrogen carrier gas had little effect on the mono- and dihalogenated anions. Quantitative analysis of the nine haloacetic acids, using flow injection, gave detection limits between 5 and 36 parts-per-trillion in 9/1 methanol/water (v/v) containing 0.2 mM ammonium acetate.Keywords
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