Analysis of pesticides in water by liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometric techniques
- 16 May 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Mass Spectrometry Reviews
- Vol. 25 (6), 900-916
- https://doi.org/10.1002/mas.20093
Abstract
Pesticide residues continue to be the focus of many environmental studies, and the number of articles describing the development of more advanced, multiresidue analytical methodologies does not decline. The use of liquid chromatography‐mass spectrometry based on single quadrupole or ion trap analyzers is consolidated for this purpose. The implementation, in the near future, of more sophisticated mass analyzers, such as triple quadrupole and hybrid quadrupole‐time‐of‐flight is anticipated for routine analysis. This article reviews the various works published so far in the literature for the determination of pesticides and transformation products (TPs) in water by means of liquid chromatography (LC) coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. It discusses the various ionization sources and analyzers used for this purpose, as well as the extraction procedures employed for previous sample preconcentration. Because of the widespread use of triple quadrupole analyzers for the generation of pesticides levels in water using tandem mass spectrometry, a table compiling the transitions monitored for ca. 70 compounds is also included.Keywords
Funding Information
- eu (EVK1-CT2002-00114, SSPI-CT-2003-511237-2)
- Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (CTM2004-06265-C03-01/TECNO)
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