title: Optimizing a dansylhydrazine (DNSH) based method for measuring airborne acrolein and other unsaturated carbonyls.
abstract: The Passive Aldehydes and Ketones Sampler (PAKS) method has been developed to measure airborne carbonyls (aldehydes and ketones) by derivatizing the carbonyls with dansylhydrazine (DNSH) on a solid sorbent. The method collection efficiencies are approximately 100% for most saturated carbonyls, but are significantly lower for unsaturated carbonyls. In this study, we examined the mechanisms of DNSH reactions with unsaturated carbonyls, focusing on acrolein. With a better understanding of these mechanisms, we modified the sampling substrate conditions and HPLC analysis conditions of the original PAKS method, resulting in substantially improved collection efficiencies for acrolein and crotonaldehyde. Evaluated under a variety of conditions (temperature, humidity, presence of ozone), the modified PAKS method had a collection efficiency of 99%+/- 5% for acrolein (N= 36) and 96%+/- 20% for crotonaldehyde (N= 6). The acrolein-DNSH derivative was stable within 9.6% of the initial amount, after 14 days of storage at 4 degrees C, on the collection medium; and stable within 2.8% of the initial amount, after 16 days of storage at room temperature, in extract.
authors.affiliation: Joint Graduate Program in Exposure Assessment, Rutgers University and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, USA.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herrington
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Donald
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Whitaker
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sheldon
authors.forename: Junfeng Jim
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000171:Acrolein / Q000032:analysis*; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry*; D000447:Aldehydes / Q000032:analysis*; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D003619:Dansyl Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D006834:Hydrazines / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D000447:Aldehydes; D003619:Dansyl Compounds; D006834:Hydrazines; C027913:dansyl hydrazine; D000171:Acrolein; C012796:2-butenal