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Liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization/ion mobility spectrometry of chlorophenols with full flow from large bore LC columns

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International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometry

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Chlorophenols (CPs) as a mixture of fourteen congeners from mono- to pentachlorophenol were determined using liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization/ion mobility spectrometry (LC/ESI/IMS) to describe the response and analytical performance of a mobility spectrometer as a detector for liquid chromatography. The mobility spectrometer was equipped with an interface so that flows from a large bore column could be electrosprayed directly into the drift tube at flow rates up to 500 μL/min without splitting of flow. A linear gradient of the mobile phase from 40% to 90% methanol and 60% to 10% acetic acid (AcOH)–ammonium acetate buffer solution over 40 min with a C18 column provided baseline separations though mobility spectra for CPs were influenced by mobile phase composition. Product ions formed from CPs with ESI included phenoxide anions CPO−, AcOH·CPO−, CPOH·CPO−, and Na+·(CPO−)2 and were found to be governed by the drift gas temperature. Ions were identified using LC/ESI/mass spectrometry (MS) and supported by results from computational modeling. Quantitative response was affected by congener structure through the acidities of the OH moiety and by the composition of the mobile phase. Limits of detection ranged from 0.135 mg/L for 2,3,5-trichlorophenol and pentachlorophenol to 2.23 mg/L for 2-chlorophenol; corresponding linear ranges were 20 and 70.

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    Fatkhulla K. Tadjimukhamedov, Dimitris Papanastasiou, Jaime E. Rodriguez, Wolfgang Mueller, Harikrishnan Sukumar & Gary A. Eiceman

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    John A. Stone

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Tadjimukhamedov, F.K., Stone, J.A., Papanastasiou, D. et al. Liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization/ion mobility spectrometry of chlorophenols with full flow from large bore LC columns. Int. J. Ion Mobil. Spec. 11, 51–60 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12127-008-0004-7

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