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Current use of high-resolution mass spectrometry in the environmental sciences

Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2012-05, Vol.403 (5), p.1251-1264 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer-Verlag 2012 ;COPYRIGHT 2012 Springer ;ISSN: 1618-2642 ;EISSN: 1618-2650 ;DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-5844-7 ;PMID: 22362279

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  • Title:
    Current use of high-resolution mass spectrometry in the environmental sciences
  • Author: Hernández, F. ; Sancho, J. V. ; Ibáñez, M. ; Abad, E. ; Portolés, T. ; Mattioli, L.
  • Subjects: Analysis ; Analytical Chemistry ; Biochemistry ; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials ; Chemistry ; Chemistry and Materials Science ; Contaminants ; Dioxins ; Ecology - methods ; Encounters ; Environmental Monitoring - methods ; Environmental Pollutants - analysis ; Food Science ; Instrument industry (Equipment) ; Laboratory Medicine ; Liquid chromatography ; Mass spectrometry ; Mass Spectrometry - methods ; Metabolites ; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis ; Pollutants ; Review ; Spectroscopy ; Transformations ; Trends
  • Is Part Of: Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2012-05, Vol.403 (5), p.1251-1264
  • Description: During the last two decades, mass spectrometry (MS) has been increasingly used in the environmental sciences with the objective of investigating the presence of organic pollutants. MS has been widely coupled with chromatographic techniques, both gas chromatography (GC) and liquid chromatography (LC), because of their complementary nature when facing a broad range of organic pollutants of different polarity and volatility. A clear trend has been observed, from the very popular GC–MS with a single quadrupole mass analyser, to tandem mass spectrometry (MS–MS) and, more recently, high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). For years GC has been coupled to HR magnetic sector instruments, mostly for dioxin analysis, although in the last ten years there has been growing interest in HRMS with time-of-flight (TOF) and Orbitrap mass analyzers, especially in LC–MS analysis. The increasing interest in the use of HRMS in the environmental sciences is because of its suitability for both targeted and untargeted analysis, owing to its sensitivity in full-scan acquisition mode and high mass accuracy. With the same instrument one can perform a variety of tasks: pre- and post-target analysis, retrospective analysis, discovery of metabolite and transformation products, and non-target analysis. All these functions are relevant to the environmental sciences, in which the analyst encounters thousands of different organic contaminants. Thus, wide-scope screening of environmental samples is one of the main applications of HRMS. This paper is a critical review of current use of HRMS in the environmental sciences. Needless to say, it is not the intention of the authors to summarise all contributions of HRMS in this field, as in classic descriptive reviews, but to give an overview of the main characteristics of HRMS, its strong potential in environmental mass spectrometry and the trends observed over the last few years. Most of the literature has been acquired since 2005, coinciding with the growth and popularity of HRMS in this field, with a few exceptions that deserve to be mentioned because of their relevance.
  • Publisher: Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1618-2642
    EISSN: 1618-2650
    DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-5844-7
    PMID: 22362279
  • Source: MEDLINE
    Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
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