PMID- 18440368 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080710 LR - 20151119 IS - 1873-4324 (Electronic) IS - 0003-2670 (Linking) VI - 615 IP - 1 DP - 2008 May 12 TI - Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction followed by reversed phase-high performance liquid chromatography for the determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers at trace levels in landfill leachate and environmental water samples. PG - 96-103 LID - 10.1016/j.aca.2008.03.038 [doi] AB - A simple, rapid and efficient method, dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME), has been developed for the extraction and preconcentration of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in water samples. The factors influencing microextraction efficiencies, such as the kind and volume of extraction and dispersive solvent, the extraction time and the salt effect, were optimized. Under the optimum conditions (sample volume: 5 mL; extraction solvent: tetrachloroethane, 20.0 microL; dispersive solvent: acetonitrile, 1.00 mL; extraction time: below 5s and without salt addition), the enrichment factors and extraction recoveries were high and ranged from 268 to 305 and 87.0 to 119.1%, respectively. Linearity was observed in the range 0.05-50 ng mL(-1) for BDE-28 and BDE-99, and 0.1-100 ng mL(-1) for BDE-47 and BDE-209, respectively. Coefficients of correlation (r(2)) ranged from 0.9995 to 0.9999. The repeatability study was carried out by extracting the spiked water samples at concentration levels of 50 ng mL(-1) for BDE-28 and BDE-99, and 100 ng mL(-1) for BDE-47 and BDE-209, respectively. The relative standard deviations (R.S.D.s) varied between 3.8 and 6.3% (n=5). The limits of detection (LODs), based on signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of 3, ranged from 12.4 to 55.6 pg mL(-1) (the wavelength of detector at 226 nm). The relative recoveries of PBDEs from tap, lake water and landfill leachate samples at spiking levels of 5, 10 and 50 ng mL(-1) were in the range of 89.7-107.6%, 114.3-119.1% and 87.0-90.9%, respectively. As a result, this method can be successfully applied for the determination of PBDEs in landfill leachate and environmental water samples. FAU - Li, Yanyan AU - Li Y AD - School of Environmental Science and Public Health, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325035, China. FAU - Wei, Guohui AU - Wei G FAU - Hu, Jia AU - Hu J FAU - Liu, Xiujuan AU - Liu X FAU - Zhao, Xinna AU - Zhao X FAU - Wang, Xuedong AU - Wang X LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20080327 PL - Netherlands TA - Anal Chim Acta JT - Analytica chimica acta JID - 0370534 RN - 0 (Ethers) RN - 0 (Polybrominated Biphenyls) RN - 0 (Solvents) RN - 0 (Trace Elements) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) RN - 451W47IQ8X (Sodium Chloride) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/instrumentation/*methods MH - Environmental Monitoring/methods MH - Ethers/*analysis MH - Phase Transition MH - Polybrominated Biphenyls/*analysis MH - Sensitivity and Specificity MH - Sodium Chloride/chemistry MH - Solubility MH - Solvents/chemistry MH - Time Factors MH - Trace Elements/*analysis MH - Waste Disposal, Fluid MH - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis EDAT- 2008/04/29 09:00 MHDA- 2008/07/11 09:00 CRDT- 2008/04/29 09:00 PHST- 2008/01/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2008/03/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2008/03/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2008/04/29 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/07/11 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/04/29 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0003-2670(08)00560-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.aca.2008.03.038 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Chim Acta. 2008 May 12;615(1):96-103. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2008.03.038. Epub 2008 Mar 27.