This invention relates to the field of detection and analysis technology, and discloses a pre-column
derivatization-liquid
chromatography-
tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS / MS) method for the detection of perfluorocarboxylic acids and their substitutes. The
highly sensitive and selective method provided by this invention, based on 3-nitrophenylhydrazine pre-column
derivatization-LC-MS / MS, achieves good correlation (R0) of nine target analytes (C2-C9 perfluorocarboxylic acids and GenX) within a wide
linear range of 0.0001-100 ng / mL. 2 The method has a
detection limit as low as 0.83 ng / L and a quantitation limit of 2.76 ng / L, with a sensitivity of 0.83 ng / L for short-chain
trifluoroacetic acid, significantly better than traditional
gas chromatography. The spiked recoveries in
ultrapure water matrix range from 88.2% to 115.7%, with inter-day and intra-day precisions of 0.2% to 17.61% and 3.5% to 16.3%, respectively, demonstrating good accuracy and reproducibility. This method incorporates highly polar short-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, previously only analyzable by GC-MS, into the LC-MS / MS detection
system. It also achieves trace detection of the novel
pollutant GenX at the ng / L level, with significantly higher sensitivity than existing methods.