| dc.description.abstract | Synthetic musk fragrances are a group of chemicals used widely in detergents, perfumes, shampoos, and many other personal care products. According to their physical and chemical properties, they are in common with many hydrophobic and semivolatile organic pollutants that are known to biomagnify through the food chain. The occurrence of synthetic polycyclic musks, a group of the most concern synthetic musk fragrances currently, has been reported in air, freshwater, seawater and sediment suggesting that they are widespread contaminants in the environment. Because of their highly lipophilic properties, polycyclic musks have been also found in aquatic biota, such as mussels and fish, and even in human adipose tissue and breast milk. These compounds have been shown to demonstrate estrogenic activities, even higher concentrations of synthetic polycyclic musks in women’’s bloods have been correlated to higher rate of miscarriage.
In this study, the sample pretreatment technique of microwave-assisted headspace solid-phase microextraction (MA-HS-SPME) has been developed and studied for the extraction of six commonly used synthetic polycyclic musks (i.e., Galaxolide (HHCB), Tonalide (AHTN), Celestolide (ADBI), Traseolide (ATII), Cashmeran (DPMI) and Phantolide (AHMI)) in aqueous samples prior to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. The effects of various extraction parameters (i.e., extraction time, microwave power and addition of salt) for the quantitative extraction of these polycyclic musks by MA-HS-SPME were systematically investigated and optimized. The analytes can be extracted by 65 ?m PDMS/DVB fiber under 180 W microwave power for 4 min, 20 mL water sample added 4 g NaCl was put in 40 mL vial with headspace 20 mL (the ratio of sample : headspace = 1:1, v/v). The limit of detection (LOD) ranged from 0.05 to 0.1 ng/L and the limit of quantification (LOQ) was less than 0.2 ng/L. Preliminary results show that HHCB and AHTN were two commonly detected polycyclic musks in real environmental samples, ranging from 1.2 to 37.3 ng/L via standard addition method with correlation coefficient (r2) above 0.981. The analytical procedure developed herein demonstrated that the MA-HS-SPME and GC-MS-SIM methods are reliable, sensitive and offer a convenient analytical technique for trace determination of polycyclic musks in various water samples.
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