Validation of modified Ducos's method for the determination of urine trans,trans-muconic acid

Abstract

This work was conducted in an attempt to validate a method for determination of trans,trans-muconic acid (TT-MA) by high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection. The clean-up procedure of samples involves the use of strong anionic exchange cartridges for solid phase extraction. Purified samples are injected onto a reversed phase column Lichrosorb RP 18 (250 x 4.2 mm - 5 µm) temperature of 40 ºC. The isocratic run is performed at a constant flow of 1.0 mL/min; the mobile phase consists of acetic acid 1% and methanol (90:10 v/v) pH 2.72 and the UV detector is set at 264 nm. The analytic validation results were in the linearity range of 0.006 - 10.0 µg/mL, detection and quantification limits of 0.006 µg/mL and 0.03µg/mL respectively, intra and interassay coefficient of variation 9.57% and 11.15% respectively and recovery of 86.42%. The method seems suitable for biological monitoring of subjects exposed to benzene.