Surface water and sediment samples collected from Jukskei River in South Africa, were subjected to different extraction techniques, liquid-liquid (LLE), solid-phase extraction (SPE), activated carbon extraction (ACE) and soxhlet extraction (SE) for sediment. The samples were extracted with dichloromethane, cleaned in a silica gel column and the extracts quantified using a Varian 3800 GC-ECD. Th...

Phosalone, malathion and diazinon were analyzed in corn oil using solid phase extraction (SPE)with lanthanum silicate as a new solid sorbent followed by gas chromatography with nitrogenphosphorus detection (GC-NPD). The efficiency of different eluents (methanol, dichloromethane,ethyl acetate, dichloromethane — ethyl acetate (1:1) and ethyl acetate — methanol (1:1)) werecompared for elution of o...

A reliable solid-phase extraction – high-performance liquid chromatography (SPE-HPLC) method for the determination of flavonoids in European Bupleurum species B. baldense Turra and B. affine Sadler was developed. Extraction of aerial parts by ultrasound with 80% aqueous methanol and fractionation of flavonoids by means of SPE allowed a good recovery of analytes between 99 and 104%. The subseque...

A combination of solid phase extraction (SPE) columns was used for selective separation of water-soluble arsenic species: arsenite, arsenate, monomethylarsonic acid (MMA) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA). The SPE columns, namely AnaLig TE-01 (TE-01), AnaLig AN-01 Si (AN-01) and AnaLig As-01 PA (As-01), contain immobilized macrocyclic material as the sorbent and commonly known as molecular recogni...

An analytical method is required for the analysis of monoterpenes in animal plasma to support a pharmacokinetic study. Monoterpenes common to sagebrush are extracted from sheep plasma by employing solid-phase extraction (SPE), followed by analysis of the extracts by gas chromatography with flame ionization detection. The analytes are quantitated versus an external standard and by comparison wit...

The aim of this work was to establish the best experimental conditions for the isolation of flunitrazepam and its main metabolite 7-aminoflunitrazepam from human plasma. Several mixtures of solvents (ethyl acetate, tert-butylmethyl ether, hexane, chloroform/ ethyl ether (20/80), dichloromethane / ethyl ether (20/80) and extraction cartridges (Oasis MCX , SepPak C18, Chromafix C18, Oasis HLB) we...

A sensitive, reliable, and automated solid-phase extraction (SPE) method was developed for the simultaneous extraction, confirmation, and quantitation of Ag-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 11-nor-9-carboxy-A%tetrahydrocannabinol (THCCOOH) from whole blood. The extraction was performed on the Zymark RapidTrace SPF Workstation with a reduced solvent volume SPE copolymer cartridge. Quantitative ana...

A new, sensitive and fast dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) coupled with micro-solid phase extraction (μ-SPE) was developed for determination of zearalenone (ZEN) in wheat samples. The DLLME was performed using acetonitrile/water (80:20 v/v) as the disperser solvent and 1-octanol as the extracting solvent.  The acetonitrile/water (80:20 v/v) solvent was also used to extract ZEN f...

Two concentration methods for fast and routine determination of caffeine (using HPLC-UV detection) in surface, and wastewater are evaluated. Both methods are based on solid-phase extraction (SPE) concentration with octadecyl silica sorbents. A common “offline” SPE procedure shows that quantitative recovery of caffeine is obtained with 2mL of an elution mixture solvent methanolwater containing a...

The application of carbon nanotubes (CNT’s) for solid phase extraction (SPE) is still capturing the creative minds of the analytical chemists. This resulted in development of many modified procedures for difficult samples with improved analytical figures of merit. This review covers the most recent uses of CNT’s for SPE (up to December 31, 2009) that has not been covered in previous reviews. It...