Abstract
A sensitive new ultraviolet-fluorescent labeling technique has been developed for the analysis of environmentally important phenols in aqueous media using 2-fluorenesulfonyl chloride as the derivatizing agent. The phenols are allowed to react with the sulfonyl chloride, and the labeled sulfonates are subsequently analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography employing fluorescence and UV detection. Use of the fluorenyl derivatives and fluorescence detection has lowered the detection limits ca. ten times that of conventional UV detection systems to a minimum detectable quantity of 0.05 ng at signal-tonoise ratio of 5:1. In addition, the chromatographic properties of the derivatives allow the option of using millilitersize injection loops without significant band spreading. A typical determination of phenolic content requires ca. 2 hr.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 272-275 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Journal of Chromatographic Science |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 7 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1984 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial support for this work was provided by Minnesota Sea Grant, by a Sea Grant Fellowship to TAS, and by the Environmental Protection Agency (R807455 and CR810948). The contents of this paper do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the US EPA or Sea Grant and the mention of trade names and commercial products does not constitute their endorsement.