PMID- 24054273 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140220 LR - 20191210 IS - 1873-7072 (Electronic) IS - 0308-8146 (Linking) VI - 143 DP - 2014 Jan 15 TI - Determination of volatile components of saffron by optimised ultrasound-assisted extraction in tandem with dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. PG - 499-505 LID - S0308-8146(13)01093-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.08.024 [doi] AB - In the present research, a combined extraction method of ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) in conjunction with dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) was applied to isolation and enrichment of saffron volatiles. The extracted components of the saffron were separated and determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) technique. The mixture of methanol/acetonitrile was chosen for the extraction of the compounds and chloroform was used at the preconcentration stage. The important parameters, such as composition of extraction solvent, volume of preconcentration solvent, ultrasonic applying time, and salt concentration were optimised by using a half-fraction factorial central composite design (CCD). Under the optimal conditions, the linear dynamic ranges (LDRs) were 10-10,000mgL(-)(1). The determination coefficients (R(2)) were from 0.9990 to 0.9997. The limits of detection (LODs) and limits of quantification (LOQs) for the extracted compounds were 6-123mgL(-)(1) and 20-406mgL(-)(1), respectively. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) were 2.48-9.82% (n=3). The enhancement factors (EFs) were 3.6-41.3. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Sereshti, Hassan AU - Sereshti H AD - Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, P.O. Box 14155-64555, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: sereshti@khayam.ut.ac.ir. FAU - Heidari, Reza AU - Heidari R FAU - Samadi, Soheila AU - Samadi S LA - eng PT - Evaluation Study PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130813 PL - England TA - Food Chem JT - Food chemistry JID - 7702639 RN - 0 (Plant Extracts) RN - 0 (Volatile Organic Compounds) SB - IM MH - Crocus/*chemistry MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Liquid Phase Microextraction/*methods MH - Molecular Structure MH - Plant Extracts/*chemistry/*isolation & purification MH - Ultrasonics/*methods MH - Volatile Organic Compounds/*chemistry/*isolation & purification OTO - NOTNLM OT - Central composite design OT - Dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction OT - Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry OT - Saffron OT - Ultrasonic-assisted extraction EDAT- 2013/09/24 06:00 MHDA- 2014/02/22 06:00 CRDT- 2013/09/24 06:00 PHST- 2012/11/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/08/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/08/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/09/24 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/09/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/02/22 06:00 [medline] AID - S0308-8146(13)01093-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.08.024 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Food Chem. 2014 Jan 15;143:499-505. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2013.08.024. Epub 2013 Aug 13.