Abstract
Preparative capillary isotachophoresis (ITP) was studied for sample pretreatment in the high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of ionogenic analytes present in complex ionic matrices (urine and humic substances). Sulphanilate, methyl (4-aminobenzenesulphonyl)carbamate (asulam), 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) served as model analytes. A high sample load of the ITP pretreatment was achieved by performing the preparative separations in tubes of 2.0 and 1.0 mm I.D. in the column-coupling configuration of the separation unit. The ITP separation according to ionic mobilities was combined with gradient elution HPLC in the ion-suppression mode to achieve highly dissimilar (orthogonal) separation systems in both techniques. The pretreatment provided the sample fraction for the HPLC analysis containing in addition to the analyte (sulphanilate) only ca. 2–3% of the urine matrix (spread along the complete elution profile) when a pair of discrete spacers defined the trapped constituents. Under these conditions the limit of detection for sulphanilate in urine could be reduced by more than two orders of magnitude. A high recovery of the pretreatment procedure [99 ± 1.5% for a 1.7 ppm (w/w) concentration of sulphanilate] was typical. For asulam, 2,4-D and MCPA present in a humic matrix it was shown that the ITP pretreatment may also be effective for multi-residue procedures while favourable analytical characteristics of the pretreatment such as recovery and efficient sample clean-up are maintained.
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