title: Speciation of arsenic compounds in fish and oyster tissues by capillary electrophoresis-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
abstract: A capillary electrophoresis-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometric (CE-ICP-MS) method for the speciation of six arsenic compounds, namely arsenite [As(III)], arsenate [As(V)], monomethylarsonic acid, dimethylarsinic acid, arsenobetaine and arsenocholine is described. The separation has been achieved on a 70 cm length x 75 microm ID fused-silica capillary. The electrophoretic buffer used was 15 mM Tris (pH 9.0) containing 15 mM sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), while the applied voltage was set at +22 kV. The arsenic species in biological tissues were extracted into 80% v/v methanol-water mixture, put in a closed centrifuge tube and kept in a water bath, using microwaves at 80 degrees C for 3 min. The extraction efficiencies of individual arsenic species added to the sample at 0.5 microg As/g level were between 96% and 107%, except for As(III), for which it was 89% and 77% for oyster and fish samples, respectively. The detection limits of the species studied were in the range 0.3-0.5 ng As/mL. The procedure has been applied for the speciation analysis of two reference materials, namely dogfish muscle tissue (NRCC DORM-2) and oyster tissue (NIST SRM 1566a), and two real-world samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ching-Fen
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: Shiuh-Jen
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019075:Electrophoresis, Capillary / Q000379:methods*; D005399:Fishes; D013058:Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D010125:Ostreidae / Q000737:chemistry*