Yi Peng Wang,Song Yang,Yun Zhen Jia,Pei Jian Sun,Xue Hui Sun,Hong Bo Wang,Jun Wei Guo,Xiao Bing Zhang,Hui Min Liu,Cong Nie
In this study, carboxymethyl peanut shell (CPS) was prepared, and then peanut shell-based porous material (PPS) was obtained by the complexation reaction of CPS with Cu2+. The carboxymethyl content of CPS increased gradually with the increase of the amounts of monochloroacetic acid and sodium hydroxide, and the Cu2+ loading amount of PPS increased gradually with the increase of carboxymethyl content. The scanning electron microscope results showed that PPS-1, PPS-2, PPS-3 (PPS-1~3) had many nanoscale pores. The nitrogen adsorption-desorption results suggested that PPS-1~3 were all mesoporous materials with an average pore diameter of about 10 nm, while their Brunauer-Emmet-Teller surface area and pore volume of PPS-1 to PPS-3 increased gradually. Compared with the control cigarette, the release of HCN in cigarette mainstream smoke could be effectively reduced with the use of PPS-1~3, the reduction rate of HCN per total particulate matter were 54.9%, 63.1% and 67.0%, respectively.
Trace analysis of multi-targets in complex matrices such as cigarette smoke has always been a great challenge for analysts. In this paper, a high-throughput qualitative and quantitative method was developed and validated to determine 559 aroma compounds in mainstream smoke using gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Among four commonly used extraction solvents, dichloromethane showed obvious advantages in extracting the target aroma compounds with different polarity. An analyte protectant mixture consisting of 3-methoxy-1,2-propanediol, 1,2-octandiol, 1,2-nonanediol, and 1,2-tetradecanediol was first presented to compensate for the matrix effect, which was suitable for solvents of a wide polarity range such as hexane, dichloromethane, acetone, acetonitrile, and methanol. Moreover, the introduction of precolumn backflushing markedly improved the instrument robustness in analyzing complex cigarette smoke. The results showed that the system retained good stability after 30 days of injection. The proposed method performed well in terms of key validation parameters: accuracy (70.3–118.8% for 552 compounds), inter/intraday precision (0.1–10.7% and 0.2–18.2%), and sensitivity (limit of detection 0.12–102.54 ng/mL). Finally, this method was successfully applied to analyze 12 different commercial cigarette brands. The proposed method has good application prospects based on its robustness and may be used as a potential tool to transfer the cigarette design from an experience-dependent mode to a digital design mode. This method also shows potential in assaying aroma compounds in essentials, food or plant-based substrates.
Characterization of chemical composition in cigarette smoke is essential for establishing smoke-related exposure estimates. Currently used methods require complex sample preparation with limited capability for obtaining accurate chemical information. We have developed an in situ solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method for online processing of smoke aerosols and directly coupling the SPME probes with confined-space direct analysis in real time (cDART) ion source for high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. In a confined space, the substances from SPME probes can be efficiently desorbed and ionized using the DART ion source, and the diffusion and evaporation of volatile species into the open air can be largely avoided. Using SPME-cDART-MS, mainstream smoke (MSS) and side-stream smoke (SSS) can be investigated and the whole analytical protocol can be accomplished in a few min. More than five hundred substances and several classes of compounds were detected and identified. The relative contents of 13 tobacco alkaloids were compared between MSS and SSS. Multivariate data analysis unveiled differences between different types of cigarette smoke and also discovered the characteristic ions. The method is reliable with good reproducibility and repeatability, and has the potential to be quantitative. This study provides a simple and high-efficiency method for smokeomics profiling of complex aerosol samples with in situ online extraction of volatile samples, and direct integration of extracted probes with a modified ambient ionization technique.