Investigation of arsenic speciation in oyster test reference material by multidimensional HPLC-ICP-MS and electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (ES-MS-MS)

Analyst. 2001 Jul;126(7):1055-62. doi: 10.1039/b102225n.

Abstract

Multidimensional (size-exclusion-anion-exchange-cation-exchange) liquid chromatography with ICP-MS detection was developed to produce a map of water-soluble species in an oyster test reference material. The presence of arsenobetaine, trimethyl(2-carboxyethyl)arsonium inner salt, arsenocholine, dimethylarsonic acid, tetramethylammonium ion, As(v) and two arsenosugars was demonstrated by ES-MS-MS. A previously unreported compound was isolated and identified by ES-MS-MS as 5-dimethylarsinoyl-beta-ribofuranose. Anion-exchange chromatography was optimized to produce a chromatographically pure peak of arsenobetaine (accounting for ca. 64% of all water-soluble As present) that was used to quantify this compound.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Arsenic / analysis
  • Arsenic / chemistry*
  • Arsenicals / analysis
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Ostreidae / chemistry*
  • Shellfish / analysis*
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization

Substances

  • Arsenicals
  • Arsenic