Abstract
Micellar liquid chromatography (MLC) is a useful technique for the determination of compounds in biological samples. Here, a sensitive procedure has been developed for the determination of carbaryl, a phenyl-N-methylcarbamate, and its main metabolite, 1-naphthol, using a C18 column (150 mm × 4.6 mm) and fluorescence detection. After performing optimization studies with an interpretative strategy, the selected mobile phase was sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) 0.15 M – 6% (v/v) pentanol - NaH2PO4 0.01 M buffered at pH 3. The validation studies include linearity (r2 > 0.9999), limits of detection and quantification, (0.0325 and 0.1 µM for carbaryl; 0.125 and 0.350 µM for 1-naphthol, respectively), intra- and inter-day precisions below 4%, and robustness parameters below 5%, all of which are adequate for the quantification of these two compounds in urine and serum samples to be directly injected into the chromatographic system.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sandeep K. Mourya thanks U.G.C. (GoI) in New Delhi for providing J.R.F. Maria Rambla-Alegre thanks the M.E.C. for its research fellow. Dr. Devasish Bose thanks Bancaixa for providing the visiting grant. This study was part of Project EMR-15(1)/2005/C-06, funded by Directorate of Forensic Science (MHA, GoI) at the Dr. H.S. Gour University, Sagar. Project CTQ2007-64473/BQU was funded by the MEC.
Notes
c1, c2, c3, and c4 were 0.5, 1.25, 2.5, and 3.75 µM, respectively, for carbaryl and 1-naphthol.