Trace Analysis of Diethylstilbestrol [DES] in Animal Chow by Parallel High-Speed Liquid Chromatography, Electron-Capture Gas Chromatography, and Radioassays
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Chromatographic Science
- Vol. 15 (1) , 14-21
- https://doi.org/10.1093/chromsci/15.1.15
Abstract
An analytical method is described for determining residues of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) in animal chow at levels as low as 1 ppb. A methanol extract of the chow is subjected to a 3-step cleanup procedure including a Sephadex LH-20 column, liquid-liquid partitioning at pH 14 and 10.2, and a silica gel column. Residues of DES in the cleaned-up extract are analyzed directly by high-speed liquid chromatography or derivatized to pentafluoropropionyl-DES and assayed by electron-capture gas chromatography. Tests with14C-DES were used to develop and validate the procedure. Ancillary data concerning extraction efficiencies of various solvents, comparisons of various derivatizing reagents, rates of trans-cis isomerization in two solvents, p-values of DES in various solvent-systems and thin-layer chromatographic behavior in 9 solvent systems are also presented.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Carcinogenic Dose-Response Curve to Oral Diethylstilbestrol2JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1964