Abstract
The coupling of ion chromatography (IC) with electrospray mass spectrometry (ES-MS) opens new ways for the determination of polar organic micropollutants in water samples. The technique of conductivity suppression has been found to reduce the background signal in the range of about two-orders of magnitude leading to a significant increase in sensitivity. In addition, the formation of salt adducts has been avoided. The usefulness of this method was proven on several polar and environmentally relevant micropollutants such as the herbicide glyphosate and its metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA), the chelating agent ethylenediamine tetraacetate (EDTA) and diacetonketogulonic acid (DAG). This present study has shown that IC–ES-MS is a simple, sensitive and quick method for the determination of these polar organic traces in water samples after separation on an anion-exchange column without any derivatization. In this work, several possibilities of applications of IC–ES-MS (with varying conditions) are presented. Analysis of glyphosate, AMPA, DAG and EDTA in ground and surface waters has been achieved by IC–ES-MS without additional sample preparation at a concentration level of 1 μg/l.
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