High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method for Simultaneous Determination of Residual Benomyl and Methyl 2-BenzimidazoIe Carbamate on Apple Foliage Without Cleanup
Abstract A simple HPLC method has been developed to individually determine residues of benomyl and MBC on apple leaves without cleanup. Sample leaves in a Mason jar are freeze-dried and tumbled for extraction in CHC13 containing 5000 μg n-propyl isocyanate/mL at 1°C. n-Butyl isocyanate is added to the extract at 5000 μg/mL, and 20 μL of the mixture is injected into the HPLC system. A Brownlee LiChrosorb silica gel column with a guard column is operated with a mixed mobile phase of chloroform-hexane (4+1) saturated with water. MBC, present as a degradation compound of benomyl, is identified as methyl 1 – (n – propylcarbamoyl) – 2 – benzimidazole carbamate (MBC-n-PIC derivative). At 280 nm, both benomyl and MBC-n-PIC can be detected with a UV detector at a level of 0.2 ppm in apple leaves.