Thermal aqueous liquid chromatography—the TALC technique

Thermal Aqueous Liquid Chromatography (TALC) using pure water as a mobile phase should be a very attractive technique promoting the use of liquid chromatography in routine analysis, either in the laboratory or in future on-line process control. This simple form of chromatography, the selectivity of which depends on the fixed phase only, would allow the use of flame ionization as an almost universal, low-cost detector in liquid chromatography. The potential of the TALC technique is illustrated by selected examples.     

火焰原子吸收光谱法直接测定锡阳极泥中的银

建立了火焰原子吸收光谱法(FAAS)测定锡阳极泥中银含量的方法。文章考察了不同的测定介质、酸度对测定结果的影响。实验结果表明在选定条件下,锡阳极泥中的锡、锑、铅等杂质不干扰银的测定。方法加标回收率在99.2%~103%,精密度实验结果表明,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=11)均小于4%。操作过程简单,能满足生产的需要。     

低分子量溴代聚苯乙烯的制备及应用

用溶液法合成了一系列低分子量的聚苯乙烯，其溴化产物（Ｂｒ－ＰＳ）的溴含量和热稳定性与美国同类产品Ｐｙｒｏ－Ｃｈｅｋ ＬＭ相当，分别用作聚苯乙烯树脂的阻燃剂，极限氧指数测定结果表明，其阻燃性也达到了Ｐｙｒｏ－Ｃｈｅｋ ＬＭ的水平。     

APCI as an innovative ionization mode compared with EI and CI for the analysis of a large range of organophosphate esters using GC‐MS/MS

Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are chemical compounds incorporated into materials as flame‐proof and/or plasticizing agents. In this work, 13 non‐halogenated and 5 halogenated OPEs were studied. Their mass spectra were interpreted and compared in terms of fragmentation patterns and dominant ions via various ionization techniques [electron ionization (EI) and chemical ionization (CI) under vacuum and corona discharge atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI)] on gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC‐MS). The novelty of this paper relies on the investigation of APCI technique for the analysis of OPEs via favored protonation mechanism, where the mass spectra were mostly dominated by the quasi‐molecular ion [M + H]⁺. The EI mass spectra were dominated by ions such as [H₄PO₄]⁺, [M–R]⁺, [M–Cl]⁺, and [M–Br]⁺, and for some non‐halogenated aryl OPEs, [M]^+● was also observed. The CI mass spectra in positive mode were dominated by [M + H]⁺ and sometimes by [M–R]⁺, while in negative mode, [M–R]⁻ and more particularly [X]^‐ and [X₂]^‐● were mainly observed for the halogenated OPEs. Both EI and APCI techniques showed promising results for further development of instrumental method operating in selective reaction monitoring mode. Instrumental detection limits by using APCI mode were 2.5 to 25 times lower than using EI mode for the non‐brominated OPEs, while they were determined at 50‐100 times lower by the APCI mode than by the EI mode, for the two brominated OPEs. The method was applied to fish samples, and monitored transitions by using APCI mode showed higher specificity but lower stability compared with EI mode. The sensitivity in terms of signal‐to‐noise ratio varying from one compound to another. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Interrelationship between total volatile organic compounds emissions,structure and properties of natural rubber/polycaprolactone bio-blends cross-linked with peroxides

Natural rubber/polycaprolactone (NR/PCL) bio-based blends with different organic peroxides were prepared using an internal batch mixer and subsequently cross-linked at 170 °C. Two types of commonly used organic peroxides, dicumyl peroxide and di(tert-butylperoxyisopropyl)benzene peroxide, were applied as free-radical initiator. Cross-linking efficiency of NR/PCL blends were investigated using oscillating disc rheometer measurements, followed by infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic mechanical analysis and tensile testing. Total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs) emissions were determined using headspace analysis integrated with gas chromatography with flame ionization detector. Determined TVOCs emissions varying in range 21.6–52.1 μg/g and generally value of this parameter decreased with increasing content of PCL phase in studied blends or with application of more efficient di(tert-butylperoxyisopropyl)benzene peroxide as cross-linking agent. It was found that increasing of TVOCs parameter indicated deterioration of mechanical properties of NR/PCL blends, which corresponded with the changes in chemical structure and thermal properties of cross-linked NR/PCL. This confirms that evaluation of TVOCs parameter is interesting alternative for “conventional methods” to characterization of the studied bio-based blends.