Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, ozone and nitrogen dioxide in ambient air are simultaneously collected on silica gel cartridges coated with 1-methyl-1-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)hydrazine (MDNPH), where the two aldehydes are derivatized to their respective hydrazones, while the two oxidants are converted into N-methyl-2,4-dinitroaniline (MDNA). The three products are then separated and quantified by HPLC with UV detection at 360 nm. The stoichiometric factors of the MDNPH reactions with O3 and NO2 in laboratory tests correspond to 2.0 +/- 0.1 moles of MDNA per mole of O(x) (O3 + NO2). The limits of detection (LOD) are 0.7 ppbv HCHO, 0.8 ppbv CH3CHO and 1.6 ppbv O(x) for 30 L (1 h) air sampled. The sampling performance is insensitive to relative humidities encountered in real atmospheres. When compared with Sep-Pak DNPH silica cartridges as well as with ozone photometric and nitrogen dioxide chemiluminescent analyzers, the proposed chromatographic method demonstrates a very good accuracy (12% for HCHO, 14% for CH3CHO and 7% for O(x), on the average) under field sampling conditions at concentrations lower than 3 and 1 ppbv, for HCHO and CH3CHO, respectively and ranging from 28 to 62 ppbv for O(x).
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