Atmospheric pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of fourteen emerging polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles in PM2.5

Yanhao Zhang; Yi Jie Chen; Yuanyuan Song; Chuan Dong; Zongwei Cai

doi:10.1016/j.cclet.2020.07.022

Atmospheric pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of fourteen emerging polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles in PM_2.5

Yanhao Zhang
, Yi Jie Chen
, Yuanyuan Song
, Chuan Dong
, Zongwei Cai^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

Research on pollution characteristics and toxicities of emerging polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles (PASHs) in PM_2.5 has not been reported due to the lack of analytical method with the needed performance. In the present study, a novel method for the determination of 14 PASHs in PM_2.5 was developed using atmospheric pressure gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (APGC-MS/MS). Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization was operated with multiple reaction monitoring in positive ionization mode. High sensitivity (method detection limit < 1.673 pg/m³), acceptable recoveries (67.6%–120.8%) and precisions (RSD of 2.2%–15.4%) were obtained. The method was successfully applied for analyzing PASHs in 10 PM_2.5 samples collected from Taiyuan, a typical industrial city in China, in 2016. The total concentrations were from 929 pg/m³ to 14,593 pg/m³. The determined levels indicated that further investigations on environmental fate and toxicities of PM_2.5-bound PASHs may be needed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	801-804
Number of pages	4
Journal	Chinese Chemical Letters
Volume	32
Issue number	2
Early online date	11 Jul 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cclet.2020.07.022
Publication status	Published - Feb 2021

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Ambient concentrations
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Multiple reaction monitoring
PM
Polycyclic aromatic sulfur heterocycles

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