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Water SA

On-line version ISSN 1816-7950
Print version ISSN 0378-4738

Abstract

CHOKWE, TB; OKONKWO, JO; SIBALI, LL  and  NCUBE, EJ. Improved derivatization protocol for simultaneous determination of alkylphenol ethoxylates and brominated flame retardants followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses. Water SA [online]. 2015, vol.41, n.2, pp.189-193. ISSN 1816-7950.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v41i2.03.

An improved derivatization protocol for the simultaneous determination of alkylphenol ethoxylates and brominated flame retardants with heptafluorobutyric anhydride under triethylamine amine base was investigated. The derivatization reaction was completed in 30 min at 50°C using hexane as solvent. Under these conditions, it was observed that alkylphenol ethoxylates and tetrabromobisphenol A were derivatized successfully in the presence of hexabromocyclododecane, lower congeners of polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. The improved protocol was applied to recovery of analytes of interest from simulated water samples after solid phase extraction. The recoveries achieved were above 60%. The limit of detection and limit of quantification ranged from 0.01-0.20 μg/ℓ and 0.05-0.66 μg/ℓ respectively.

Keywords : Alkylphenol ethoxylates; brominated flame retardants; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; heptafluorobutyric anhydride derivatization; simultaneous determination.

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