Analysis of MCPA and TCP in water by liquid chromatography-ion trap-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry

Photocatalytic degradation of 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid using W-doped TiO2

“…It has also been used in Africa [2], East Asia such as China [3], and Sri Lanka, South East Asia [4]. MCPA is harmful to the eyes, skin and the respiratory tracts [3]. Ingesting high concentrations can result in serious health implications such as abdominal pain, haemorrhage, hypotension, hepatotoxicity, tachycardia, and kidney dysfunction [5,6].…”

“…Over 2000 tons are used in the Western European countries annually [1]. It has also been used in Africa [2], East Asia such as China [3], and Sri Lanka, South East Asia [4]. MCPA is harmful to the eyes, skin and the respiratory tracts [3].…”

Cationic metal-organic framework based mixed-matrix membrane for extraction of phenoxy carboxylic acid (PCA) herbicides from water samples followed by UHPLC-MS/MS determination

“…As seen in Table 3, the current method offers much lower LODs than those of existing methods. Moreover, in some pretreatment methods (Ma et al, 2019b;Gao et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2017), pH adjustment is needed which increased the experimental steps and time consuming. The water samples can be analyzed without adjusting pH in our developed method, thus, the pretreatment operation is simplified.…”

“…Thus, it is of great significance to establish sensitive and simple analytical methods for monitoring and quantitative analysis of residual PCAs in the environmental water samples at trace level. Various analytical technologies, including gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) (Suárez et al, 2018), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Wu et al, 2005;Mojtaba et al, 2012), liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) (Peng et al, 2018;Ma et al, 2019b;Gao et al, 2014;Jia et al, 2019) and capillary electrophoresis (CE) (Fu et al, 2009), have been used for detecting the amounts of PCAs. Amongst them, LC-MS/MS exhibits the highest sensitivity and accuracy, which is more suitable for the PCAs analysis.…”