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GC-ICP-MS technique for speciation of organotin compounds
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | Organotin compounds were widely used as pesticides, polyvinylchloride stabilizers and in other branches. As a result these compounds can be found in different areas of the environment. Because of their toxicological properties the contact of these compounds with non-target organisms should be avoided and suitable analytical techniques must be available for investigating their content in different environmental samples. Organotin compounds can be determined in various matrices using separation technique hyphenated to element specific detection. In this work gas chromatography with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry detection (GC-ICP-MS) were applied for determination of mono-, di- and tri-butyltin compounds in wood. The influence of basic detector parameters was studied as well as suitable sample preparation step. Different extraction strategies were tested and their efficiency compared. Method was applied to analysis of wood samples preserved by tributyltin-oxid based fungicide. |
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