“…Potential drawbacks existed in the method for sampling air carbonyls using DNPH-coated silica cartridges, mainly including: (1) ambient O 3 was the critical interference using DNPH-coated solid sorbent cartridges; (2) environmental relative humidity could inhibit derivatization kinetics and contributed to degradation of carbonyl-DNPH derivatives during sampling (Saha et al, 2012;Ho et al, 2013); (3) sampling volume and concentration also influenced the analysis of carbonyls using DNPH cartridges (Pal and Kim, 2008a); (4) unsaturated carbonyls such as acrolein were not accurately quantified using the DNPH method (Ho et al, 2011); and (5) the HPLC method was reliable for low-weight carbonyls, while gas chromatography was more suitable for high-weight carbonyls (Pal and Kim, 2008b;Kim and Pal, 2010;Pang et al, 2011;Xie et al, 2013). However, these potential drawbacks could be minimized though the experiments of quality assurance in the method (Feng et al, 2005;Lü et al, 2010).…”