Determination of Four Chiral Pesticides in Soil by QuEChERS-Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Environmentally friendly analytical method to assess enantioselective behaviour of pharmaceuticals and pesticides in river waters

“…Performing chiral UPLC analysis is realistic for many researchers working in this area as they already use UPLC instrumentation, albeit with enantioslective HPLC columns (e.g., see Li et al, 2012;Li et al, 2013;Camacho-Muñoz and Kasprzyk-Hordern, 2015;Zhao et al, 2016;Ma et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2021a). Although chiral UPLC has been applied to the separation for a small number of pesticides (napropamide, metalaxyl, metconazole and triticonazole) in environmental matrices (Yao et al, 2018), it has not been used for multi-residue analysis. It should be noted that supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) can also be adopted as a green approach for enantioselective analysis (Camacho-Muñoz et al, 2016;Roy et al, 2020).…”