High-throughput screening of PAHs and polar trace contaminants in water matrices by direct solid-phase microextraction coupled to a dielectric barrier discharge ionization source

Analytica Chimica Acta
Anna Katarina HubaRenato Zenobi

Abstract

Ambient mass spectrometry enables fast and direct analysis, requiring minimal or no sample preparation; these attributes have established it as the preferred technique for applications in numerous fields (e.g., biomedical, forensic, and environmental). Here we coupled an active capillary plasma ionization source based on a dielectric barrier discharge directly to solid-phase microextraction, achieving a quick (<10 min per sample), green (virtually no samples preparation and thus no solvents involved), sensitive (LODs up to 3 pg mL-1), robust (RSD of <20%), and quantitative (LDR ≥ 2 orders of magnitude) screening method. This study, moreover, shows that intrinsically poorer ionization efficiencies for low-polarity compounds (such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs), which precluded their ultra-trace detection, can be partially overcome by adding dopants and lowering the LODs into the pg mL-1 range. Results also show that the presence of these dopants greatly affects the ionization mechanism, resulting in the preferential formation of radical cations versus protonated PAHs. As a proof of concept, this method was applied to the detection of organic microcontaminants in different water matrices (such as tap, ground, and trea...Continue Reading

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