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Published on: July 25, 2014
Advanced high-performance liquid chromatography method for highly polar nitroaromatic compounds in ground water
A Preiss1, A Bauer, H-M Berstermann
1Fraunhofer-Institut für Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin, Hannover, Germany. alfred.preiss@ita.fhg.de
Abstract:
An advanced HPLC-photodiode array detection method for the determination of 12 selected highly polar nitroaromatic compounds in ground water samples of ammunition waste sites has been developed and validated. After solid-phase extraction the limits of detection were in the range 0.1-0.5 microg/l. To prove the applicability of the method to other polar nitroaromatic compounds the retention time of another 32 polar compounds under the specified chromatographic conditions were determined and their UV spectra recorded. To review the method, interlaboratory comparisons were performed with a spiked and a real ground water sample.
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