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An automated high performance liquid chromatographic method (HPLC) for the direct determination of urinary concentrations of hippuric acid (HA), and o-, m- and p-methyl hippuric acids (MHAs), metabolites of toluene and o-, m-, and p-xylenes, and of urinary phenyl glyoxylic acid (PGA) and mandelic acid (MA), metabolites of styrene or ethylbenzene, is described. Methanol was added to urine, the mixture was centrifuged and the supernatant was injected into HPLC. A stainless-steel column packed with octadecyl silanized silicate was used and the mobile phase was a mixed solution of 5 mM potassium phosphate monobasic/acetonitrile (90/10). The method is simple and specific. Urine can be analyzed without solvent extraction. Analysis can be performed satisfactorily within 45 min for samples containing HA, MHAs, PGA and MA, and within 15 min for those containing HA, PGA and MA. Another automated HPLC method for the determination of urinary concentrations of phenylsulfate (PhS) and phenylglucuronide (PhG), metabolites of benzene and phenol, is also described. Urine was centrifuged and the supernatant was injected into HPLC. A column packed with octadecyl silicate and a mobile phase of 50 mM of potassium phosphate monobasic/acetonitrile (85/15) were used. The whole analyses and quantitative determination can be performed within 15 min for samples containing PhS and PhG in the worker's urine with a simple mobile phase. The accuracy and precision in the present methods by the use of automated HPLC were satisfactory.
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Ogata, M., Taguchi, T. Quantitation of urinary metabolites of toluene, xylene, styrene, ethylbenzene, benzene and phenol by automated high performance liquid chromatography. Int. Arch Occup Environ Heath 59, 263–272 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00377738
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