A fast, inexpensive, and safe method for residue analysis of meptyldinocap in different fruits by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry.

An analytical method is reported for residue analysis of the fungicide meptyldinocap in different fruit matrixes that involves extraction with ethyl acetate, hydrolysis of the residues with ethanolamine, and determination by LC/MS/MS. The method involves extraction of 10 g sample with 10 mL ethyl acetate; evaporation of the ethyl acetate phase to dryness, and subsequent hydrolysis of the residues to 4,6-dinitro-2-(1-methylheptyl) phenol on reaction with 1% ethanolamine. The pH of this hydrolyzed product was neutralized with formic acid and analyzed by LC/MS/MS.

GC-MS analysis of organic compounds in wastewater and sewage sludge.

A multimethod based on liquid-liquid extraction and solid-liquid extraction for the analysis of persistent organic pollutants in water and sludge from sewage treatment plants has been established. Traces of 22 organic compounds used in industry and personal care products (PCPs) were analyzed by GC/MS. The LODs for the analytes were less than 2.

Spectral elucidation of the acid metabolites of the four geometric isomers of trifloxystrobin.

Four geometric isomers of trifloxystrobin (TFS)--namely EE, EZ, ZE, and ZZ--were hydrolyzed by 0.05 M NaOH, resulting in four corresponding acid metabolites. These compounds--namely EE-, EZ-, ZE-, and ZZ-acids--were purified by preparative HPLC and authentically characterized by a combination of infrared, Raman, GC-MS, LC-MS/MS, and NMR spectroscopies.

Environmental fate of trifloxystrobin in soils of different geographical origins and photolytic degradation in water.

In vitro biodegradation of trifloxystrobin (TFS) under darkness could best be explained by two-compartment first + first-order rate kinetics with half-lives ranging between 1.8 and 2.3 days.

Photoisomerization kinetics of trifloxystrobin.

The photoisomerization kinetics of trifloxystrobin (TFS) in acetone under artificial sunlight is reported. HPLC analysis showed the TFS, a strobilurine fungicide of EE conformation, was converted into an equilibrium mixture of four isomers after illumination for 7 h. The isomers were identified as EZ, EE, ZZ, and ZE and were separated in the crystalline form by preparative HPLC and characterized by use of a variety of spectroscopic techniques.