On-line concentration and determination of tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines by cation-selective exhaustive injection-sweeping-micellar electrokinetic chromatography

In this paper, a micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) method combined with cation-selective exhaustive injection (CSEI) and sweeping was developed to separate and concentrate four tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (TSNAs) including N′-nitrosoanabasine (NAB), 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK), 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL) and 4-(methylnitrosamino)-4-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (iso-NNAL). Experimental parameters affecting separation efficiency and enhancement factors were investigated in detail. Under the optimum MEKC condition, NAB, NNK, NNAL and iso-NNAL were baseline separated with high separation efficiencies and good peak shapes. Furthermore, with the preconcentration by CSEI-sweeping-MEKC, the sensitivity enhancement factors for NAB, NNK, NNAL and iso-NNAL in terms of peak areas ranged from 6.0 × 10³ to 1.5 × 10⁴, and the detection limits (LOD, S/N = 3) of four TSNAs were in the range of 0.004-0.016 μg/mL. In addition, this method had fairly good repeatability, and the RSDs of retention time and peak area were less than 1% and 5%, respectively. Finally, this method showed promising capabilities in the application of detecting and analyzing TSNAs in human urine samples.     

固相微萃取/气相色谱-质谱联用法测定橡胶密封材料中N-亚硝胺

建立了固相微萃取/气相色谱-质谱联用法(SPME/GC-MS)测定橡胶密封材料中N-亚硝基-N-甲基苯胺(NMPh A)、N-亚硝基-N-乙基苯胺(NEPh A)和N-亚硝基二苯基胺(NDPhe A)3种N-亚硝胺化合物含量的方法。样品参考国标GB/T 24153-2009进行预处理后,采用固相微萃取进行提取,对影响固相微萃取效率的纤维涂覆种类、萃取时间、搅拌速度和萃取温度等条件进行优化。在优化条件下,方法的线性范围为5~500μg/L,相关系数(r)均大于0.99,检出限为0.5μg/kg,回收率为77%~92%,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=6)为3.8%~7.7%。     

Chemical composition,N-nitrosamine inhibition and antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of essential oil from Coreopsis tinctoria flowering tops

Coreopsis tinctoria flowering (CTF) tops from the Kunlun Mountains in Xinjing (north-western China) have been used for tea production for about a century. This study was to assess antioxidant, nitrite-scavenging and N-nitrosamine inhibitory and antimicrobial activities of the essential oil extracted from CTF tops. The essential oil was extracted through hydrodistillation and its chemical compositions were analysed by GC–MS. Seventy compounds of the oil were identified, representing 81.87% of total oil. The antioxidant capacities of the oil with IC₅₀ values for scavenging DPPH and ABTS were 287.66 ± 12.60 and 1.251 ± 0.127 μg mL^? 1, respectively. The nitrite-scavenging and N-nitrosamine inhibitory activities (IC₅₀) were 0.3912 ± 0.0127 and 0.6564 ± 0.036 μg mL^? 1, respectively. The oil has a certain antimicrobial capacity, but its capacity was weaker than that of penicillinG (24 μg mL^? 1). The oil showed antioxidant and antimicrobial capacities and had a stronger nitrite-scavenging and N-nitrosamine inhibitory properties.     

The Separation of Volatile N-Nitrosamines and Pyrazines

Abstract

Peaks on a gas chromatogram due to pyrazines and N-nitrosamines may be differentiated by selective adsorption of the pyrazines on a precolumn containing cuprous thiocyanate.     

The Specificity of the Release of Nitrite from N-Nitrosamines by Hydrobromic Acid

Abstract

Hydrobromic acid in glacial acetic acid hydrolyses the N-nitroso derivatives of secondary amines and amides to produce nitrite almost quantitatively. Other compounds containing a N-O bond such as N-nitramines and N-nitramides do not react similarly under the conditions employed.