Determination of nitrite as pentafluorobenzyl derivative by RP-HPLC and UV detection with and without ion-pair extraction |
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Authors: | Dimitrios Tsikas and Jürgen C Fr?lich |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Hannover Medical School, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, W-3000 Hannover, Germany |
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Abstract: | Summary A reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method with UV detection (270 nm) for the determination of nitrite as its pentafluorobenzyl derivative with and without ion-pair extraction is described. Ion-pair extraction of nitrite from aqueous solutions was performed by using a 1 mol/l solution of the liquid ion exchanger methyltrioctylammonium chloride in toluene. The residue of the ion-pair extraction or an aliquot of an aqueous nitrite solution or of a biological fluid (100 l) were treated with 400 l of acetone and 10 l of pentafluorobenzyl bromide. Nitrite was converted into its pentafluorobenzyl derivative by heating at 50°C for 90 min. After evaporation of acetone the aqueous phases were diluted with 100 to 400 l of methanol, and up to 100 l were injected into the RP-HPLC system. The method allows accurate analysis of nitrite in the presence of nitrate directly in aqueous solutions and biological fluids in concentrations down to 2.0 mg/l. The method is also applicable to the determination of nitrate following its reduction to nitrite by cadmium. |
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