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Highly polar, non-gas-chromatographable compounds have few unambiguous analysis protocols for environmental applications. A recent environmental investigation, concerning the identification of a non-gas-chromatographable yellow component in chemical waste water and in effluents from a biological wastewater treatment plant required the use of a number of analytical approaches. Electrospray mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, high-performance liquid chromatography, nuclear magnetic resonance, and molecular spectroscopy of commercial and synthesized chlorodinitrophenol isomers were required in order to identify the specific isomer causing the color. The present report summarizes the electrospray ionization and tandem mass spectrometric studies that were used. The mass spectrometric study shows that two different isomers of chlorodinitrophenol exhibit very different collision-induced dissociation (CID) spectra. Differences in the tandem mass spectra can be attributed to the different structures of the anions formed from these two different isomers. Instrumentation that uses electrospray ionization and produces CID mass spectra and optical absorption spectra in a single analysis may be required in order to produce highly specific information on non-gas-chromatographable compounds found in the environment.
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Hughes, B.M., McKenzie, D.E. & Duffin, K.L. Identification of components in waste streams by electrospray and tandem mass spectrometry. J Am Soc Mass Spectrom 4, 604–610 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(93)85022-P
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