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A solid-phase extraction system coupled to a gas chromatograph fitted with an electron capture detector was developed for the determination of chlorophenols in waters. The continuous system consists of an XAD-2 adsorbent column where chlorinated phenols are preconcentrated and subsequently eluted with ethyl acetate. The sensitivity of the method is proportional to the number of chlorine substituents in the phenol; thus, the detection limit for monochlorophenols is ca. 10 μg L−1 and that for pentachlorophenol about 2 ng L−1. The method was used to determine chlorophenols in treated waters, with good precision; however, no mono or dichlorophenols were detected at the levels afforded by the proposed method.
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Crespín, M.A., Ballesteros, E., Gallego, M. et al. Automatic preconcentration of chlorophenols and gas chromatographic determination with electron capture detection. Chromatographia 43, 633–639 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02292980
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