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- Carbamazepin (2) (entfernen)
A large number of pharmacologically active compounds have been detected in the aquatic environment during the last decade [1] and this gives rise to many concerns [2]. The substances have been disclosed by accident, clever search or elaborate mass spectrometry. Nowadays a broad spectrum of drug parent compounds can be screened for [3], yet the knowledge about the presence of isomers and transformation products (metabolites, conjugates, degradates) is still limited.
High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was hyphenated with a previously reported carbamazepine-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as a screening approach to water analysis in order to identify possible interferences from transformation products. Treated wastewater was analysed and three substances were recognized by the antibody besides carbamazepine: the metabolites 10,11-dihydro-10,11-epoxycarbamazepine and 2-hydroxycarbamazepine plus the structurally not obviously related antihistamine cetirizine. The molar cross-reactivity against cetirizine was found to be pH-dependent and assessed to be 400% at pH 4.5 and 22% at pH 10.5. Performing the ELISA at pH 10.5 greatly improved the accuracy when carbamazepine was determined in surface and wastewater samples.