Issue 6, 2010

l-cysteine-induced degradation of organic mercury as a novel interface in the HPLC-CV-AFS hyphenated system for speciation of mercury

Abstract

By adding L-cysteine into the mobile phase of chromatography, a simple on-line high performance liquid chromatography-cold vapor generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HPLC-CV-AFS) method for separation and determination of divalent mercury (Hg2+), monomethylmercury (MMC) and ethylmercury (EMC) was developed. Compared with the conventional HPLC-UV-CV-AFS hyphenated systems, the proposed HPLC-CV-AFS system is very simple and low cost as no strong oxidant, no additional post-column interface, such as ultraviolet or microwave, and no organic solvent were needed. Parameters influencing mercury separation and determination were optimized in detail. The detection limits for MMC, EMC and Hg2+, based on three folds of baseline noise and 100 μL injection, were 0.05, 0.07, and 0.1 μg L−1, respectively. The relative standard deviation (RSD) for three parallels determinations varied from 1.4 to 2.5% at a concentration level of 50 μg L−1. The proposed method was successfully applied to analyze two certified reference material, DORM-2 (dogfish muscle) and TORT-2 (lobster hepatopancreas), and biological samples.

Graphical abstract: l-cysteine-induced degradation of organic mercury as a novel interface in the HPLC-CV-AFS hyphenated system for speciation of mercury

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 Nov 2009
Accepted
12 Feb 2010
First published
15 Apr 2010

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010,25, 810-814

L-cysteine-induced degradation of organic mercury as a novel interface in the HPLC-CV-AFS hyphenated system for speciation of mercury

Z. Wang, Y. Yin, B. He, J. Shi, J. Liu and G. Jiang, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2010, 25, 810 DOI: 10.1039/B924291K

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