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Capillary electrophoresis has been used to separate inorganic (Hg2+) and organic (methyl-, ethyl-, and phenylmercury) mercury compounds as their cysteine complexes. The optimized electrophoretic separation was performed in fused-silica capillary tubing at 25 kV with 25mm sodium borate buffer (pH 9.3). Identification and quantification of the mercury species at mg L−1 levels was achieved by use of UV detection at 200 nm. The relative standard deviation (n=10) ranged from 0.38 to 0.51% for migration times and from 0.43 to 2.94% for corrected peak areas. Good recovery (>90%) was obtained for all four mercury species in surface waters, and for inorganic mercury and methylmercury in five- to tenfold diluted biofluids (urine, saliva, and cerebrospinal fluid). TheLOQ values obtained were too high to be useful for determination of mercury species in real samples.
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Gáspár, A., Páger, C. Capillary electrophoretic determination of mercury compounds in different matrixes. Chromatographia 56, S115–S120 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02494123
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