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| Author(s): |
Aline Klassen
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2012-03-19 |
| Examining board members: |
Marina Franco Maggi Tavares;
María Segunda Aurora Prado;
Ana Valéria Colnaghi Simionato Cantu;
Dalva Lucia Araujo de Faria;
Claudimir Lucio do Lago
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| Advisor: | Marina Franco Maggi Tavares |
| Abstract | |
The dyes which have chromophoric groups like azo (N = N) are widely used in numerous applications in industry to color various consumer goods, including textiles. However, because of carcinogenic aromatic amines formed when N=N bond is broken, its use is subject to the legislation. Considering the carcinogenic potential of aromatic amines, to quantify them in products intended for export, is needed. The standard technique for monitoring the presence of these amines in consumer goods such as textiles is a high performance liquid chromatography, however the capillary electrophoresis technique can be a good alternative. In this work 20 aromatic amines derived from azo dyes, banned by the European Community by Directive 2002/61/EC, were separated by capillary electrophoresis (CE) with UV-Vis detection, and confirmation of the presence these amines textile matrix was conducted by a method confirmatory LC-MS, adapted from the literature. The knowledge of the dissociation constant acid-base (pKa) in CE technique is necessary to obtain the optimum pH for the separation. In these way the pKa as well as the ionic mobilities for each aromatic amines were determined by curves of effective mobility as a function of pH. The optimum pH for the separation was 2.50 as determined by the simulator separation developed in the group (SIMLACE). About the separation methods studied, which had a higher number of separate amines (16 amines) in the baseline in a shorter time (12 min) employing a BGE composed only of 70 mmol/L sodium dihydrogen phosphate adjusted to pH 2.50 with phosphoric acid, with a conditioning capillary either at the beginning of the working day (10 minutes flush with BGE (sodium dihydrogen 70 mmol/L adjusted to pH 2.50 with phosphoric acid, triethylamine containing 12.3 mmol/L) at a pressure 950 mbar followed by applying a voltage of +30 kV for 10 minutes) and among replicas (1 minute of HCl 0.1 mol/L (950 mbar) followed by 1 minute of H2O (950 mbar)). The extraction of amines textile matrix involves three steps: reduction of N = N bond, extraction of the amines formed and a subsequent clean up and pre-concentration. About the latter step, the best response in terms of extraction efficiency (about 100%) was obtained using solid phase extraction (SPE) with cationic exchange resin. In addition, the best condition for ultrasound extraction of the amines 1, 7 and 8, was determined by means of a response surface factorial design with three variables and two levels. The optimum condition was: temperature of 52 °C, application of ultrasound for 5 min and HCl concentration of 0.77 mol/L, with recoveries of 105% to 115%. Figures of merit for optimized method include: linearity in the range from 50.11 to 409.1 mmol/L (R2> 0.98), LD (limit of detection, 2.43 to 6.70 mmol/L) and LQ (limit of quantification, 8.10 to 22.3 mmol/L), precision (0.23 to 27.6%), robustness (established by a factorial design), selectivity, specificity (stress studies with real sample extracts) and recovery (listed above). The validated method was applied to seven samples purchased at local markets. Among them, two presented peaks with migration times and spectra similar the amines 5, 7, 12 and 15. But, in only one sample the amines 7 and 15 were confirmed by LC-MS/MS. (AU) | |