Mass-spectrometric determination of metal chelates

A method has been developed for the determination of copper as copper acetylacetonate, making use of the copper-65 labelled chelate as internal standard. The accuracy and reproducibility in the nanogram range are comparable with those of the ligand labelling method (2% relativ). The method can be easily extended to the determination of other polyisotopic metals of which an enriched stable isotope is obtainable.