Analysis of free estrogens and their conjugates in sewage and river waters by solid-phase extraction then liquid chromatography-electrospray-tandem mass spectrometry

被引：101

作者：

Gentili, A ^{[1
]}

Perret, D ^{[1
]}

Marchese, S ^{[1
]}

Mastropasqua, R ^{[1
]}

Curini, R ^{[1
]}

Di Corcia, A ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Chim, I-00185 Rome, Italy

来源：

CHROMATOGRAPHIA | 2002年 / 56卷 / 1-2期

关键词：

column liquid chromatography; solid-phase extraction; electrospray tandem mass spectrometry; estrogens in sewage and surface water;

D O I：

10.1007/BF02490242

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学];

学科分类号：

071010 [生物化学与分子生物学]; 081704 [应用化学];

摘要：

'Free' steroidal estrogens have been identified as compounds possibly responsible for endocrine-disruption of aquatic fauna populating rivers in which municipal sewage-treatment plants (STP) discharge their effluents. Natural and synthetic estrogens are excreted, as glucuronides and sulfates, by man, in the urine but these are bioconverted back to the unconjugated forms in wastewater discharges. For this reason we have developed a sensitive analytical procedure, without derivatization, for identification and quantitation of conjugated and free estrogens in surface and waste waters. The hormones were extracted and fractionated, by use of Carbograph cartridges, into neutral and acid fractions which were then analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry Recoveries were between 66 and 100% and limits of detection (LOD) between 15.0 and 0.003 ng L-1, depending on the compound and the water matrix. When this methodology was applied to real sewage and river water we could measure the main free estrogens at ng L-1 levels. Among the conjugates we always observed the presence of estrone 3-sulfate (at levels between 8.0 and 0.5 ng L-1).

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