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Establishment of a HPLC fingerprint method and its application in evaluating the overall change of organic matter in a complex environment: taking the settled house dust as an example

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Organic contamination has been recognized as a matter of concern, and simultaneous monitoring of various organic contaminants in the complex environment has always been a part of the efforts of scientists. In the present study, settled house dust (SHD) was selected to establish HPLC fingerprint method for simultaneously evaluating organic matters in an indoor environment. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) of the relative retention time (RRT) and relative peak area (RPA) for precision were 2.46% and 0.47%, respectively, while the RSDs of RRT and RPA for repeatability were 2.51% and 0.50%, respectively, and for stability within 24 h were 2.51% and 0.49%, respectively, which indicated good reliability of the method. Then, the method was used to evaluate the trend of indoor organic matters of Yunyan district (urban) and Gangou village (rural) from 2012 to 2014. The results showed the overall organic matters of Yunyan did not change significantly within 2 years, while the organic matters of Gangou village were a little aggravated by the appearance of some suspicious matters. Our study suggests a method with the capability of simultaneously evaluating various organic matters and a possibility for detecting those that are not currently on the list of priority organic contaminants.

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The representational chromatography of construction of fingerprint test method for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (S-Fig. 1 to S-Fig. 40) and representational chromatography of samples of different regions and different years (S-Fig. 41 to S-Fig. 136) are provided in the Supporting Information. This material is available free of charge on the Internet at http://pubs.Springer.org.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the present work by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21667008), Natural Science Foundation of Guizhou Province (No. [2019]1095), Natural Science Foundation of Guizhou Province (No. [2017]1053), and Department of Education of Guizhou Province (No. KY (2016) 115).

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QY conceptualized, designed this study and drafted the original manuscript. HH, TL, ZW and XZ performed the experiment, JY supervised the experiment. All authors revised the manuscript and approved the final version.

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Yang, Q., He, H., Luo, T. et al. Establishment of a HPLC fingerprint method and its application in evaluating the overall change of organic matter in a complex environment: taking the settled house dust as an example. Chem. Pap. 74, 1551–1559 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11696-019-01005-3

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