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Simultaneous Determination of Aniline, Benzidine, Microcystins, and Carbaryl in Water Using Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry

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A method for simultaneously determining the levels of aniline, benzidine, microcystin variants (microcystin-LR, RR, and YR) and carbaryl in water was developed based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS). The chromatographic conditions were optimized for the trace determination. Without sample enrichment, the method detection limit for all test compounds ranged from 0.040 to 0.155 μg/L; meanwhile, the recoveries for all test compounds were 83.1–114%. Precision, indicated by the relative standard deviation, was <12.9%. The results meet the requirements for the determination of these compounds. Without the need to clean up the samples, the results of the analysis of samples from wastewater and surface water demonstrated that the UPLC-MS/MS method has the capability to analyze complex matrices in the trace-level monitoring of wastewater samples.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Natural Science Foundation of China (21371100, 31170477, and 21501068), National Water Pollution Control and Management Technology Major Project (2012ZX07101_013), the Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and Research and Innovation Project for Postgraduate of Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province in 2016 (KYLX16_0813).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Anaerobic Biotechnology, School of Environmental and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, People’s Republic of China

    Fei Shen, Li-Hong Wang, Qing Zhou & Jia-Zhi Zhang

  2. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210046, People’s Republic of China

    Xiao-Hua Huang

  3. Wuxi Environmental Monitoring Central Station, Wuxi, 214121, People’s Republic of China

    Fei Shen, Pei-Yu Zhu, Xiu-Li Dai & Yan-Juan Xu

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Shen, F., Wang, LH., Zhou, Q. et al. Simultaneous Determination of Aniline, Benzidine, Microcystins, and Carbaryl in Water Using Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry. Water Air Soil Pollut 228, 69 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-017-3260-5

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