Feasibility of ultra-high performance liquid and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry for accurate determination of primary and secondary phthalate metabolites in urine samples

Analytica Chimica Acta

Volumn 853, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 625-636

  Herrero, Laura ^a   Calvarro, Sagrario ^a   Fernández, Mario A ^a   Quintanilla López, Jesús Eduardo ^a   González, María José ^a   Gómara, Belén ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA ORGÁNICA GENERAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography; Mass spectrometry; Phthalate metabolites; Ultra high performance liquid chromatography; Urine

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BODY FLUIDS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; ESTERS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

INSTRUMENTAL METHODS; MEDIAN CONCENTRATION; PHTHALATE METABOLITES; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE; ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIES; URINE;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

5 CARBOXY MONO (2 ETHYLHEXYL)PHTHALATE; 5 CARBOXY MONO (2 ETHYLPENTYL)PHTHALATE; 5 OXO MONO (2 ETHYLHEXYL)PHTHALATE; MONOBENZYL PHTHALATE; MONOETHYL PHTHALATE; MONOISOBUTYL PHTHALATE; MONOMETHYL PHTHALATE; PHTHALIC ACID; PHTHALIC ACID 2 ETHYLHEXYL MONOESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHTHALIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPANIARD; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; URINE;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHTHALIC ACIDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 84922530129     PISSN: 00032670     EISSN: 18734324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2014.09.043     Document Type: Article

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