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Speciation analysis of arsenic-glutathione complexes by ion-pairing HPLC-ICP-MS
Zušťáková, Veronika ; Matoušek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Červený, Václav (referee)
The thesis has focused on the separation of arsenic-glutathione species using ion-pairing high performance liquid chromatography with detection by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Species were separated on chromatographic column Prodigy ODS (3) using an aqueous mobile phase containing 4.7mM tetrabutylammonium hydroxide (TBAH), 2mM malonic acid and 4% methanol at pH 5.85 in the isocratic mode. Simple arsenic species - arsenite (iAsIII), arsenate (iAsV) monomethylarsenic acid (MAsIII), monomethylarsenous acid (MAsV), dimethylarsenic acid (DMAsIII) and dimethylarsenous acid (DMAsV), which served as arsenic standards to determine retention times, were successfully separated under these conditions. Arsenic-glutathione complexes As(GS)3, MAs(GS)2 and DMAs (GS) were not successfully separated. These complexes provided peaks of simple arsenic species. Peak broadening was observed in the first analysis of As(GS)3 and MAs(GS)2 complexes, which disappeared in subsequent analyses. This broadening probably represents a residual of glutathion complex which disintegrated to single species. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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