TY - JOUR AU - Destanoğlu, Orhan AU - Ateş, İsmail PY - 2021/01/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Headspace gas chromatography–mass spectrometry method for the determination of total cyanide concentration in water and post-mortem blood samples JF - Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society JA - J. Serb. Chem. Soc. VL - 86 IS - 1 SE - Analytical Chemistry DO - 10.2298/JSC200422063D UR - https://shd-pub.org.rs/index.php/JSCS/article/view/9447 SP - 77-90 AB - <p class="Abstract">In this study, we aimed to develop a headspace gas chromatography–<br />–mass spectrometry method for determining the total cyanide concentration in the forensic evidences. Total cyanide content of the samples was calculated based on the hydrogen cyanide gas concentration evaporated from the liquid sample in the headspace vial. Hexacyanoferrate(II) was used for the optimiz­ation of headspace oven temperature. We have found that iron–cyanide bonds were completely degraded after 0.2 mL of the sample was treated with 1 mL of 1 M sulfuric acid under the optimized headspace conditions where the tempera­ture and the heating time were 120 °C and 12.5 min, respectively. Satisfactory recovery results for both aqueous and blood samples were obtained. The method was linear in the range 0.05–10 µg mL-1 of cyanide which was a suit­able range for toxicological investigations. The proposed method was validated and applied to the <em>post-mortem</em> blood samples, drinking waters, and the other forensic evi­dences. The proposed method can easily be performed not only in the forensic laboratories, but in the related laboratories where the total cyanide analysis is a critical issue.</p> ER -