Simultaneous determination of eight illegal dyes in chili products by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
Your answer to this entire assessment should be less than 1500 words.
1.Produce a 500 word review of the paper.
2.Comment on the polarity of the aceto nitrile/water solvent used to extract the colours. Why do you think this solvent
mixture was considered in the group of six solvents investigated?
3. Figure 2 show recovery of food colours with different solvents.Comment on why some recoveries exceed 100%.
4.Section 3.2 talks about symmetrical peak shapes why is this desirable?
5.Some chromatograms in figure 4 have multiple peaks.Why might this be?
6.What is LC-MS/MS and how does it differ from LC-MS?
7.This paper describes a tandem technique. Explain the concept of tandem techniques and provide several examples of their use in analytical chemistry.
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