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Selective Detector (selective + detector)
Selected AbstractsDevelopment of a new hybrid technique for rapid speciation analysis by directly interfacing a microfluidic chip-based capillary electrophoresis system to atomic fluorescence spectrometryELECTROPHORESIS, Issue 11 2005Feng Li Abstract This paper represents the first study on direct interfacing of microfluidic chip-based capillary electrophoresis (chip-CE) to a sensitive and selective detector, atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) for rapid speciation analysis. A volatile species generation technique was employed to convert the analytes from the chip-CE effluent into their respective volatile species. To facilitate the chip-CE effluent delivery and to provide the necessary medium for subsequent volatile species generation, diluted HCl solution was introduced on the chip as the makeup solution. The chip-CE-AFS interface was constructed on the basis of a concentric "tube-in-tube" design for introducing a KBH4 solution around the chip effluent as sheath flow and reductant for volatile species generation as well. The generated volatile species resulting from the reaction of the chip-CE effluent and the sheath flow were separated from the reaction mixture in a gas-liquid separator and swept into the AFS atomizer by an argon flow for AFS determination. Inorganic mercury (Hg(II)) and methylmercury (MeHg(I)) were chosen as the targets to demonstrate the performance of the present technique. Both mercury species were separated as their cysteine complexes within 64 s. The precision (relative standard deviation, RSD, n = 5) of migration time, peak area, and peak height for 2 mg·L,1 Hg(II) and 4 mg·L,1 MeHg(I) (as Hg) ranged from 0.7 to 0.9%, 2.1 to 2.9%, and 1.5 to 1.8%, respectively. The detection limit was 53 and 161 µg·L,1 (as Hg) for Hg(II) and MeHg(I), respectively. The recoveries of the spikes of mercury species in four locally collected water samples ranged from 92 to 108%. [source] Volatile compounds of original African black and white shea butter from Tchad and CameroonEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LIPID SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Issue 7 2006Sabine Krist Abstract Shea butter is used as an edible vegetable fat in many African countries. It can be utilized as a substitute or complete replacement for cocoa butter in various applications and plays an important role in traditional African medicinal practice. Although detection of volatile compounds by solid-phase micro-extraction gas-chromatography mass-spectroscopy (SPME-GC-MS) is a very reliable and reproducible technique, which can be used as an important part of authenticity checking, production monitoring and contamination detection, no published data about volatile compounds of shea butter are available so far. In this investigation, the characteristic volatiles in the headspace of original African shea butter samples were identified by using SPME-capillary-GC coupled to a mass selective detector. Almost 100,different volatile components were identified, e.g. fatty acids, saturated and unsaturated aldehydes and ketones, terpenes, and typical Maillard reaction products such as methylfuranes and pyrazines. Furthermore, the samples have been olfactorily evaluated by a panel of professional flavorists and trained analytical chemists. It can be stated that variations in processing conditions of shea butter result in considerable differences in the composition of headspace volatiles, detected by SPME-GC-MS and human olfaction. [source] The evolution of volatile compounds profile of "Toscano" dry-cured ham during ripening as revealed by SPME-GC-MS approach,JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (INCORP BIOLOGICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY), Issue 9 2010C. Pugliese Abstract The volatile compounds profile is an important feature for the characterization of dry-cured hams. Some minor typical Italian products, such as ,Toscano' ham, have been poorly studied in regards to their composition of volatile compounds. In this article, we studied the evolution of the aromatic profile of ,Toscano' dry-cured ham by solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatographic-mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS) with ripening. Ten right thighs were cured according to the ,Toscano' PDO protocol, sampled at 0, 1, 3, 6 and 12 months and submitted to volatile compounds analysis by SPME with a Divinylbenzene (DVB)/Carboxen/Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) 75-µ Stable Flex fibre. An Agilent 5975C mass selective detector (MSD) spectrometer with electron ionization (EI) source operating in scan mode within the m/z 29,350 range was used for data collection. Seven internal standards, either deuterium labeled or absent in the specimens and chosen to represent low or high boiling esters, alcohols, acids or phenols, were added to the homogenized samples and used to normalize the SPME fibre response to account for response changes upon wearing. Linear calibrations were obtained in this way for selected representative compounds. Over 60 compounds belonging to esters, aldehydes, organic acids, ketones and alcohols were identified by comparison with spectral libraries and Kovats indices. Aldehydes were the most represented chemical family, followed by organic acids, alcohols, ketones and esters. The aldehydes and ketones increased during the first 3 months, when the larger formation of volatiles occurred. For other families, the evolution over time was less evident. The principal component and discriminant analyses of the aromatic profile were effective in classifying the hams at 0, 6 or 12 months of ripening while for 1 and 3 months' samples a partial overlapping was shown. These results represent the first characterization of ,Toscano' ham and may constitute the basis to identify the best ripening time and define an analytical quality standard for this typical ham. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Analysis of pesticide residues by online reversed-phase liquid chromatography,gas chromatography in the oil from olives grown in an experimental plot.JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, Issue 12 2006Part II Abstract The effect of the pesticide dose used to control pests in olive trees and the date of treatment on the residues present in the oil were studied for four organophosphorus pesticides (diazinon, malathion, trichlorphon and chlorfenvinphos) and one organochlorine (endosulfan). Pesticide residue analysis was performed using online reversed-phase liquid chromatography,gas chromatography, using an automated through oven transfer adsorption desorption interface and selective detectors, such as nitrogen,phosphorus detector and electronic capture detector. A simple filtration step was necessary before the chromatographic analysis of samples. The obtained data were statistically analyzed and conclusions about olive pesticide treatments are presented. Copyright © 2006 Society of Chemical Industry [source] | |||||||||||||