Organic and Organo-Metallic Molecular Analysis
(Q-ToF, Quattro, Q-Trap, Saturn, NMR)
Bruce, S.A., B.J. Saville and R.J.N. Emery. 2010. Ustilago maydis produces cytokinins
and abscisic acid for potential regulation of tumor formation in maize. J. Plant Growth
(in press)
Ferland-Raymond, B., R.E. March, C.D. Murray and D.L. Murray. 2010. Prey detection
of aquatic predators: Assessing the identity of chemical cues eliciting prey behavioural
plasticity. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 38:169-177.
Goggin, D.E., K.J. Steadman, R.J.N. Enery, S.C. Farrow et al. 2010. initial
characterisation of low and high seed dormancy populations of Lolium rigidum produced
by repeated selection. J. Plant Physiology (in press).
Li, H., P. Helm and C. Metcalfe. 2010. Sampling for pharmaceuticals, personal care
products, and endocrine disrupting substances using passive polar sampler (POCIS):
Temperature effects, predictive relationships and application to monitoring in the Great
Lakes. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 29:751-762.
Li, H., E.L.M. Vermeirssen, C.D. Helm and S.D. Metcalfe. 2010. A controlled field
evaluation of wter flow rate effects on sampling polar organic compounds using polar
organic integrative samplers. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. (in press)
Metcalfe, C.D., S. Chu, H. Judt, H. Li et al. 2010. Antidepressents and their metabolites
in municipal wastewater, and downstream exposure in an urban watershed. Environ.
Toxicol. Chem. 29:79-89.
Radchuk, R., R.J.N. Emery, D. Weier et al. 2010. Sucrose non-fermenting kinase 1
(SnRK1) coordinates metavolic and hormonal signals during pea cotyledon growth and
differentiation. Plant Journal 61:324-338.
Riebeseel, R., R.E. Häusler, R. Radchuk, T. Meitzel, M. Hajirezaei, R.J.N. Emery et al.
2010. The 2-oxoglutarate/malate translocator mediates amino acid and storage protein
biosysnthesis in pea embryos. Plant Journal 61:350-363.
Scheurer, M., M. Ramil, C.D. Metcalfe and J.Y. Wilson. 2010. Cross-species
comparison of fluoxetine metabolism with fish liver microsomes. Chemosphere 79:2632.
Straka, J., A. Hayward and R.J.N. Emery. 2010. Gall-inducing Pachypsylla celtidis
(Psyllidae) infiltrate hackberry trees with high concentration of phytohormones. J. Plant
Interactions (in press).
Woodcroft, M.W., D.A. Ellis, S.P. Rafferty, D.C. Burns, R.E. March et al. 2010.
Experimental charactization of the mechanism of perfluorocarboxylic acids’ liver protein
bioaccumulation: The key role of neutral species. Environ. Toxicol. Chem 29:16691677.
Edwards, M., E. Topp, C.D. Metcalfe, H. Li et al. 2009. Pharmaceuticals and personal
care products in the tile drainage following surface spreading and injection of dewatered
municipal biosolids. Sci. Total Environ. 407:4220-4230.
Ellis, D.A. and E. Webster. 2009. Response to Comment on “Aerosol Enrichment of the
Surfactant PFO and Mediation of the Water – Air Transport of Gaseous PFOA”.
Environ. Sci. Technol. 43:1234-1235.
Field, S.K., J.P. Smith, B.P. Holzapfel, W.J. Hardie and R.J.N. Emery. 2009. Grapevine
response to soil temperature: xylem cytokinins and carbohydrate reserve mobilization
from budbreak to anthesis. Amer. J. Enol. Viticulture 60:164-172.
Goggin, D.E., K.J. Steadman, R.J.N. Emery, S.C. Farrow et al. 2009. ABA inhibits
germination but not dormancy release in mature imbibed seeds of Lolium rigidum Gaud.
J. Exp. Bot. 12:3387-3396.
Miranda Filho, K.C., T.L. Metcalfe, C.D. Metcalfe et al. 2009. Lactational transfer of
PCBs and chlorinated pesticides to the pups of southern elephant seals (Mirounga
leonina) in Antarctica. Chemosphere 75:610-616.
Sabourin, L., A. Beck, P.W. Duenk, S. Kleywegt, D.R. Lapen, H. Li, C.D. Metcalfe, M.
Payne and E. Topp. 2009. Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products
following application of dewatered municipal biosolids to an agricultural field. Sci. Total
Environ. 407:4596-4604.
Simons, D.B.D., A.R. Hayward, T.C. Hutchinson and R.J.N. Emery. 2009.
Identification and quantification of glutathione and phtochelatins from Chlorella vulgaris
by Rp-HPLC ESI-MS/MS and an oxygen-free extraction. Anal. Bioanal. Chem..
395:809-817.
Weigelt, K., H. Kuster, T. Rutten, A. Fait, A.R. Fernie, O. Miersch, C. Wasternack,
R.J.N. Emery et al. 2009. ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase deficient pea embryos reveal
specific transcriptional and metabolic changes of C:N metabolism and stress responses.
Plant Physiol. 149:395-411.
Burns, D.C., D.A. Ellis, H. Li, C.J. McMurdo and E. Webster. 2008. Experimental pKa
determination for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and the potential impact of pKa
concentration dependence on laboratory-measured partitioning phenomena and
environmental modeling. Environ. Sci. Technol. 42:9283-9288.
Conkle, J.L., J.R. White and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Reduction of pharmaceutically active
compounds by a lagoon wetland wastewater treatment system in southeast Louisiana.
Chemosphere 73:1741-1748.
Gouteux, B., D.C.G. Muir, C.A. Teixeira, E.W. Born, R. Dietz, T. Haug, T. Metcalfe, C.
Metcalfe and N. Oien. 2008. Toxaphene in minke whales (Balaenopterus acutorostrata)
from North Atlantic waters. Environ. Pollution 153:71-83.
Hansen, L., P.C. Frost, J.H. Larson and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Poor elemental food
quality reduces the toxicity of fluoxetine on Daphnia magna. Aquatic Toxicology 86:99103.
Held, M.A., A.N. Pepper, J. Bozdarov, M.D. Smith, R.J.N. Emery and F.C. Guinel.
2008. The pea nodulation mutant R50 (sym16) displays altered activity and expression
profiles for cytokinin dehydrogenase. J. Plant Growth Regulation 27:170-180.
Hooker, S.K., T.L. Metcalfe, C.D. Metcalfe, C.M. Angell, J.Y. Wilson, M.J. Moore and
H. Whitehead. 2008. Changes in persistent contaminant load and CYP1A1 enzyme
activity in biopsy samples from northern bottlenose whales, Hyperoodon ampullatus,
following the onset of nearby oil and gas development. Environ. Pollution 152:205-216.
Kurepin, L.V., R.J.N. Emery, C.C. Chinnappa and R.M. Reid. 2008. Light
irradiancedifferentially regulates levels of cytokinins and auxin in sun and shade
genotypes of Stellaria longipes. Physiologia Plantarum 134:624-635.
Lapen, D.R, E. Topp, C.D. Metcalfe, H. Li, M. Edwards, N. Gottschall, P. Bolton, W.
Curnoe, M. Payne, A. Beck. 2008. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in tile
drain flow following land application of sewage biosolids. Sci. Total Environ. 399:50-65.
March, R.E. and J.A. Brodbelt. 2008. Analysis of flavanoids: tandem mass
spectrometry, computational methods, and NMR. J. Mass Spectrom. 43:1583-1617.
March, R.E., D.C. Burns and D.A. Ellis. 2008. Empirically-predicted 13C NMR
chemical shifts for 8-hydroxyflavone starting from 7,8,4′-trihydroxyflavone and 7,8dihydroxyflavone. Magn. Reson. Chem. 46:680-682.
Metcalfe, T.L., P.J. Dillon and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Transport of toxic substances from
golf courses into watersheds in the Precambrian Shield region of Ontario, Canada.
Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 27:811-818.
Metcalfe, T.L., P.J. Dillon and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Effects of formulations of the
fungicide, pentachloronitrobenzene (PCNB) on early life stage development of the
Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). Chemosphere 71:1957-1962.
Paterson, G. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Uptake and depuration of the anti-depressant
fluoxetine by the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). Chemosphere 74:125-130.
Topp, E., S.C. Monteiro, A. Beck, B.B. Coelho, A. B.A. Boxall, P.W. Duenk, S.
Kleywegt, D.R. Lapen, M. Payne, L. Sabourin, Hongxia Li, C.D. Metcalfe. 2008.
Runoff of pharmaceutically-active compounds from agricultural land amended with
liquid municipal biosolids. Sci. Total Environ. 296:52-59.
Yargeau, V., A. Lopata and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Pharmaceuticals in the Yamaska River,
Quebec, Canada. Water Quality Res. J. Canada 42:231-239.
Zhao, X.M. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Characterizing and compensating for matrix effects
using atmospheric pressure chemical ionization liquid chromatography - Tandem mass
spectrometry: Analysis of neutral pharmaceuticals in municipal wastewater. Anal. Chem.
80:2010-2017.
Zhao, X.M. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2008. Determination of neutral pharmaceuticals in
municipal wastewater by liquid chromatography-atmospheric pressure chemical
ionization-tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical Chem. (in press)
Burns, D.C., D.A. Ellis, H. Li, E.G. Lewars and R.E. March. 2007. A combined NMR
and computational study of monohydroxyflavones applied to product ion mass spectra.
Rapid Commun. Mass. Spectrom. 21:437-454.
Burns, D.C., D.A. Ellis and R.E. March. 2007. A predictive tool for assessing 13C NMR
chemical shifts of flavonoids. Magn. Reson. Chem. 45:835-845.
Burns, D.C., F. Zhang and G.A.Woolley. 2007. Synthesis of 3,3'-bis(sulfo)-4,4'bis(chloroacetamido)azobenzene and cysteine cross-linking for photo-control of protein
conformation and activity. Nature Protocols 2:251-258.
Chu, S. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2007. Simultaneous determination of triclocarban and
triclosan in municipal biosolids by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. J.
Chromatogr. A 1164:212-218.
Chu, S. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2007. Analysis of paroxetine, fluoxetine and norfluoxetine in
fish tissues using pressurized liquid extraction, mixed mode SPE cleanup and LCMS/MS. J. Chromatogr. A 1163:112-118.
Chu, S. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2007. Analysis of acrylamide in water using a co-evaporation
preparative step and isotope dilution liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry.
Anal. Chem. 79:5093-5096.
Lewars, E.G. and R.E. March. 2007. Fragmentation of 3-hydroxyflavone; a
computational and mass spectrometric study. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 21:16691679.
March, R.E., H. Li, O. Belgacem and D. Papanastasiou. 2007. High-energy and lowenergy collision-induced dissociation of protonated flavonoids generated by MALDI and
by electrospray ionization. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 262:51-66.
Miranda-Filho, K.C., T.L. Metcalfe, C.D. Metcalfe, R.B. Robaldo, M.M.C. Muelbert,
E.P. Colares, P.E. Martinez and A. Bianchini. 2007. Residues of persistent
organochlorine contaminants in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from
Elephant Island, Antarctica. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41:3829-3835.
Small J. and H Hintelmann. 2007. Methylene blue derivatization then LC-MS analysis
for measurement of trace levels of sulfide in aquatic samples. Analytical and
Bioanalytical Chemistry 387:2881-2886
Belmont M.A., M. Ikonomou and C.D. Metcalfe. 2006. Presence of nonylphenol
ethoxylate surfactants in a watershed in central Mexico and removal from domestic
sewage in a treatment wetland. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 25:29-35.
Chen, M., K. Ohman, C. Metcalfe, M.G. Ikonomou, P. L. Amatya, and J.J. Wilson.
2006. Pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors in wastewater treatment effluents and in
the water supply system of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Water Qual. Res. J. Canada
41:351-364.
Hua W-Y., E.R. Bennett, X-S. Miao, C.D. Metcalfe and R.J. Letcher. 2006. Seasonality
effects on pharmaceuticals and s-triazine herbicides in wastewater effluent and surface
water from the Canadian side of the upper Detroit River. Environ. Toxicol. Chem.
25:2356-2366.
March, R.E., E.G. Lewars, C.J. Stadey, X-S. Miao, X. Zhao and C.D. Metcalfe. 2006. A
comparison of flavonoid glycosides by electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. Intern. J.
Mass Spectrom. 248:61-85.
O'Toole, S. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2006. Synthetic musks in fish from urbanized areas of the
lower Great Lakes, Canada. J. Great Lakes Res. 32:361-369.
O’Toole, S., C.D. Metcalfe, I. Crane and M. Gross. 2006. Release of persistent organic
contaminants from carcasses of Lake Ontario Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha). Environmental Pollution 140: 99-110.
Yang, J-J. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2006. Fate of synthetic musks in a domestic wastewater
treatment plant and in an agricultural field amended with biosolids. Sci. Total Environ.
363:149-165.
March, R.E. and C.J. Stadey. 2005. A tandem mass spectrometric study of saccharides at
high mass resolution. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 19:805-812.
Miao, X-S, J-J. Yang and C.D. Metcalfe. 2005. Fate of carbamazepine and its metabolites
in a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Environ. Sci. Technol. 39:7469-7475.
Taylor, V.F., R.E. March, H.P. Longerich and C.J. Stadey. 2005. A mass spectrometric
study of glucose, sucrose, and fructose using an Inductively-Coupled Plasma and
Electrospray Ionization. Int. J. Mass Spectrom. 243:71-84.
March, R.E. and X.-S. Miao. 2004. A fragmentation study of kaempferol using
electrospray quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry at high mass resolution”,
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (Special Issue Honoring Jean-Claude Tabet).
231:157-167.
March, R.E., X.-S. Miao and C.D. Metcalfe. 2004. A fragmentation study of a flavone
triglycoside, kaempferol-3-O robinoside-7-O-rhamnoside. Rapid Commun. Mass
Spectrom.. 18:931-934
March, R.E., X.-S. Miao and C.D. Metcalfe. 2004. A fragmentation study of an
isoflavone glycoside, genistein-7-O-glucoside, using electrospray quadrupole time-offlight mass spectrometry at high mass resolution. Int. J. Mass Spec. 232:171-183.
March, R.E., X.-S. Miao, C.D. Metcalfe, M. Stobiecki and L. Marczak. 2004. A
fragmentation study of an isoflavone glycoside, genistein-7-O-glucoside, using
electrospray quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry at high mass resolution. Int. J.
Mass Spectrom. 232:171-183.
Miao, X-S., F. Bishay, M. Chen and C.D. Metcalfe. 2004. Occurrence of antimicrobials
in the final effluents of wastewater treatment plants in Canada. Environ. Sci. Technol.
38:3533-3541.
Metcalfe, C.D., X-S. Miao, B.G. Koenig and J. Struger. 2003. Distribution of acidic and
neutral drugs in surface waters near sewage treatment plants in the lower Great Lakes,
Canada. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 22:2881-2889.
Metcalfe, C.D., B.G. Koenig, D.T. Bennie, M. Servos, T.A. Ternes and R. Hirsch. 2003.
Occurrence of acidic and neutral drugs in the effluents of Canadian sewage treatment
plants. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 22:2872-2880
Miao, X., R.E. March and C.D. Metcalfe. 2003. Fragmentation study of salinomycin and
monensin A antibiotics using electrospray quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Rapid. Commun. Mass Spectrom. 17:149-154
Miao, X.-S., R.E. March and C.D. Metcalfe. 2003. A tandem mass spectrometric study
of the N-oxides quinoline N-oxide, carbadox, and olaquindox carried out at high mass
accuracy using electrospray ionization. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
(Special Issue Honoring John Beynon). 230:123-133.
Miao, X-S. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2003. Simultaneous determination of carbamazepine and
its metabolites in aqueous samples using liquid chromatography electrospray tandem
mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry, 75:3731-3738.
Miao, X-S. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2003. Determination of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs
in aqueous samples using electrospray liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
J. Chromatography A, 998:133-141.
Miao, X. and C.D. Metcalfe. 2003. Pharmaceutical analysis in aqueous samples using
positive and negative voltage switching microbore LC-ESI-MS/MS. J. Mass Spectrom.
38:27-34.
Hao, C., R.E. March, T.R. Croley, S. Chen, M.G. Legault and P. Yang. 2002. A Study
of neurotransmitter dopamine and neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine by electrospray
ionization coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom.
16:591-599.
Lindemann T. and H. Hintelmann. 2002. Identification of selenium containing
glutathione S-conjugates in a yeast extract by two-dimensional liquid chromatography
with ICP-MS and nanoelectrospray MS/MS detection. Analytical Chemistry 74:46024610.
Lindemann T. and H. Hintelmann. 2002. Selenium speciation by HPLC with tandem
mass spectrometry. Fresenius' Journal of Analytical Chemistry 372:486-490.
March, R.E., C.J. Stadey, E.G. Lewars. 2002. An electrospray/tandem mass
spectrometric study of pyridine N-oxide and pyridine-d5 N-oxide carried out at high mass
resolution”. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 19:984-1004.
Miao, X-S., B.G. Koenig and C.D. Metcalfe. 2002. Analysis of acidic pharmaceutical
drugs in the aquatic environment using liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass
spectrometry. J. Chromatography A 952:139-147.
Miao, X.-S., C.D. Metcalfe, C. Hao and R.E. March. 2002. Electrospray ionization mass
spectrometry of ginsenosides. J. Mass Spectrom. 37:495-506.
Hao,C., R.E. March, T.R. Croley, J.C. Smith and S.P. Rafferty. 2001. ESI/MS/MS study
of salt cluster ions: Part I Investigations of alkali chloride and sodium salt cluster ions. J.
Mass Spectrom. 36:79-96.
Hao, C. and R.E. March. 2001. ESI/MS/MS study of salt cluster ions: Part 2: salts of
polyatomic acid groups and of multivalent metals. J. Mass Spectrom. 36:509-521.
Hughes, R.J., T.R. Croley, C.D. Metcalfe and R.E. March. 2001. A tandem mass
spectrometric study of selected characteristic flavonoids. Int. J. Mass Spectrom.
210/211:371-385.
Metcalfe, C.D., T.L. Metcalfe, Y. Kiparissis, B.G. Koenig, C. Khan, R.J. Hughes, T.R.
Croley, R.E. March and T. Potter. 2001. The estrogenic potency of chemicals in sewage
treatment plant effluents as determined by in vivo assays with Japanese medaka (Oryzias
latipes). Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 20:297-308.
Croley, T.R., R.J. Hughes, G.B. Koenig, C.D. Metcalfe and R.E. March. 2000. Mass
spectrometry applied to the analysis of estrogens in the environment. Rapid Commun.
Mass Spectrom. 14:1087-1093.
Hao, C., T.R. Croley, R.E. March, B.G. Koenig and C.D. Metcalfe. 2000. Mass
spectrometric study of persistent acid metabolites of nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants.
J. Mass Spectrom. 35:818-830.
Croley, T.R., R.J. Hughes, C.D. Metcalfe and R.E. March. 2000. Observation of
apigenin anionic oligomers in the gas phase. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 14:14941498.
Croley, T.R., R.J. Hughes, C. Hao, C.D. Metcalfe and R.E. March. 2000. Observation of
Na+-bound oligomers of quercetin in the gas phase. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 14:
2154-2157.