Simultaneous determination of two plant growth regulators in ten food samples using ion chromatography combined with
Nadeem Muhammad1, Qamar Subhani2, Fenglian Wang1
1Department of Chemistry, Xixi Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310028, China.
Abstract:
A new simple, isocratic, selective and highly sensitive method has been developed for the simultaneous separation and determination of two plant growth regulators (PGRs): 2-(1-Naphthyl)acetic acid (NAA) and 2-(Naphthalen-1-yl)acetamide (NAD). Both PGRs were extracted by modified and miniaturized ion chromatography-Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged and Safe (IC-QuEChERS) method from ten food samples. The separation and sensitive determination were carried out by using ion chromatography coupled with fluorescence and ultraviolet (IC-FLD/UV) detector. The proposed analytical and extraction methods were validated by using blank samples, fortified with a standard solution of these two PGRs at three concentration levels 5, 15 and 25µg/kg. The method showed good linearity (r2≥0.980), satisfactory recoveries (76.3-112) with tolerable precision having relative standard deviations less than 15.4% (RSDs, n=3). The limit of detection and limit of quantification were also in the range of 0.08-6.6ng/kg and 2.2-20ng/kg, respectively.
