Issue 17, 2013

Rapid determination of trace sulfonamides in fish by graphene-based SPE coupled with UPLC/MS/MS

Abstract

An analytical protocol for simultaneous determination of thirteen sulfonamides in fish tissues has been developed. Target analytes were enriched by solid-phase extraction using graphene as a sorbent and quantified by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with triple-quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometry. In the present work, graphene was systematically evaluated as a solid-phase extraction sorbent for analyte enrichment and clean-up. Under optimized conditions, average recoveries of individual sulfonamides were between 76.2 and 91.5% at three different spiked levels, the matrix-matched calibration curves were prepared at six concentration levels and a good linear relationship (R2 > 0.990) was observed. The mean values of relative standard deviation of intra- and inter-day precision ranging from 1.8 to 5.7% and from 2.9 to 7.6% were obtained, respectively. The proposed method has been successfully applied to the analysis of sulfonamides in grass carp fish samples, indicating the potential of graphene as a SPE sorbent for the enrichment of trace residues in food matrices.

Graphical abstract: Rapid determination of trace sulfonamides in fish by graphene-based SPE coupled with UPLC/MS/MS

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Mar 2013
Accepted
01 Jul 2013
First published
02 Jul 2013

Anal. Methods, 2013,5, 4363-4370

Rapid determination of trace sulfonamides in fish by graphene-based SPE coupled with UPLC/MS/MS

L. Chen, T. Zhou, Y. Zhang and Y. Lu, Anal. Methods, 2013, 5, 4363 DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40523K

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