PMID- 23708286 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20131227 LR - 20130527 IS - 1873-4324 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2670 (Linking) VI - 782 DP - 2013 Jun 11 TI - Separation of phthalates by cyclodextrin modified micellar electrokinetic chromatography: quantitation in perfumes. PG - 67-74 LID - S0003-2670(13)00511-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.aca.2013.03.072 [doi] AB - A new CE method has been developed for the simultaneous separation of a group of parent phthalates. Due to the neutral character of these compounds, the addition of several bile salts as surfactants (sodium cholate (SC), sodium deoxycholate (SDC), sodium taurodeoxycholate (STDC), sodium taurocholate (STC)) to the separation buffer was explored showing the high potential of SDC as pseudostationary phase. However, the resolution of all the phthalates was not achieved when employing only this bile salt as additive, being necessary the addition of neutral cyclodextrins (CD) and organic modifiers to the separation media. The optimized cyclodextrin modified micellar electrokinetic chromatography (CD-MEKC) method consisted of the employ of a background electrolyte (BGE) containing 25 mM beta-CD-100 mM SDC in a 100 mM borate buffer (pH 8.5) with a 10% (v/v) of acetonitrile, employing a voltage of 30 kV and a temperature of 25 degrees C. This separation medium enabled the total resolution of eight compounds and the partial resolution of two of the analytes, di-n-octyl phthalate (DNOP) and diethyl hexyl phthalate (DEHP) (Rs~0.8), in only 12 min. The analytical characteristics of the developed method were studied showing their suitability for the determination of these compounds in commercial perfumes. In all the analyzed perfumes the most common phthalate was diethyl phthalate (DEP) that appeared in ten of the fifteen analyzed products. Also dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diallyl phthalate (DAP), dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCP), and di-n-pentyl phthalate (DNPP) were found in some of the analyzed samples. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Perez-Fernandez, Virginia AU - Perez-Fernandez V AD - Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Alcala, Spain. virginia.perezf@uah.es FAU - Gonzalez, Maria Jose AU - Gonzalez MJ FAU - Garcia, Maria Angeles AU - Garcia MA FAU - Marina, Maria Luisa AU - Marina ML LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130422 PL - Netherlands TA - Anal Chim Acta JT - Analytica chimica acta JID - 0370534 EDAT- 2013/05/28 06:00 MHDA- 2013/05/28 06:01 CRDT- 2013/05/28 06:00 PHST- 2012/12/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/02/26 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/03/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/05/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/05/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/05/28 06:01 [medline] AID - S0003-2670(13)00511-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.aca.2013.03.072 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chim Acta. 2013 Jun 11;782:67-74. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2013.03.072. Epub 2013 Apr 22.