The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the aqueous environment has been widely published but the fate of pharmaceutical residues in the environment continues to attract the attention of the scientific community. Due to the widespread use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), this group of drugs is often detected and determined in surface waters, influent and effluent wastewaters, and...

A new method for extraction and analysis of ethanol and methanol in human whole blood, urine and saliva samples based on headspace solid phase microextraction (SPME) using silver sulfide (Ag(2)S) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) coated on silver wire is described. Unlike commercial fibers, which are coated on fused silica, the proposed fiber has a metallic base to which the coating adheres very str...

a simple and rapid microextraction procedure based on the application of magnetic nanoparticles and hydrophobic 1-hexylpyridinium hexafluorophosphate [hpy][pf6] ionic liquid (il) was applied to trace determination of gatifloxacin. a mixture of [hpy][pf6] and magnetic nanoparticles was injected into the sample solution containing the analyse of interest and a cloudy solution was formed. after ce...

In this study, a dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction along with back-extraction step (DLLME-BE) has been developed for the determination of thre antidepressant drugs (citalopram, sertraline, and venlafaxine) in biological samples prior to HPLC-UV. Briefly, method involved two main steps: first, deep eutectic solvent (DES) composed tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBABr as agent) 1-dodecanol (as...

This paper describes a new approach for the determination of amitriptyline in wastewater by ionic liquid based immersed droplet microextraction (IL-IDME) prior to high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection. 1-Hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([C6MIM][PF6]) was used as an ionic liquid. Various factors that affect extraction, such as volume of ionic liquid, sti...

Residual solvents (RS) are not desirable substances in the final pharmaceutical product and their acceptable limits have been published in pharmacopoeias and ICH guidelines. The intension of this paper was to review and discuss some of the current analytical procedures including gas chromatographic (GC) and other alternative techniques which are used for residual solvents determination. GC meth...

THE possibility of employing counter-current liquid'liquid-extraction for the separation of amino-acids in the form of acyl derivatives from protein 'hydrolysates was briefly discussed by Synge [1939, 1-4], who described preliminary experiments on the separation of some of the naturally occurring 'monoaminoacids'. In the present paper we review the literature on counter-current liquidliquid ext...