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. 2019 Jul 22;16(14):2604. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16142604

Table 2.

Selected ion monitoring of each PAHs in GC-MS system.

Compounds Abbreviation Retention Time (min) Selected Ions (m/z)
Naphthalene-d8 IS1 a 4.679 136 c
Naphthalene NA 4.964 128, 129, 127
2-Fluorobiphenyl SS1 6.134 172
Acenaphthylene ACY 6.845 152, 151, 153
Acenaphthene-d10 IS2 7.125 164
Acenaphthene ACE 7.176 154, 153, 152
Fluorene FL 8.177 166, 165, 167
Phenanthrene-d10 IS3 10.511 188
Phenanthrene PH 10.557 178, 179, 176
Anthracene AN 10.700 178, 176, 179
Fluoranthene FLU 14.624 202, 229, 226
Pyrene PY 15.399 202, 200, 203
4-Terphenyl-d14 SS2 b 16.622 244
Benzo[a]anthracene BaA 20.582 228, 229, 226
Chrysene-d12 IS4 20.626 240
Chrysene CH 20.724 228, 226, 229
Benzo[b]fluoranthene BbF 25.085 252, 253, 125
Benzo[k]fluoranthene BkF 25.188 252, 253, 125
Benzo[a]pyrene BaP 26.249 252, 253, 125
Perylene-d12 IS5 26.500 264
Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene IP 30.298 276, 138, 277
Dibenz[a,h]anthracene DBA 30.571 278, 139, 279
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene BP 31.026 276, 138, 277

a Internal standard. b Surrogate standard. c Bold indicates quantitative ion.