PMID- 24401454 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140902 LR - 20140109 IS - 1873-3573 (Electronic) IS - 0039-9140 (Linking) VI - 119 DP - 2014 Feb TI - Application of the experimental design of experiments (DoE) for the determination of organotin compounds in water samples using HS-SPME and GC-MS/MS. PG - 544-52 LID - S0039-9140(13)00940-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.11.052 [doi] AB - When attempting to discover the important factors and then optimise a response by tuning these factors, experimental design (design of experiments, DoE) gives a powerful suite of statistical methodology. DoE identify significant factors and then optimise a response with respect to them in method development. In this work, a headspace-solid-phase micro-extraction (HS-SPME) combined with gas chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) methodology for the simultaneous determination of six important organotin compounds namely monobutyltin (MBT), dibutyltin (DBT), tributyltin (TBT), monophenyltin (MPhT), diphenyltin (DPhT), triphenyltin (TPhT) has been optimized using a statistical design of experiments (DOE). The analytical method is based on the ethylation with NaBEt4 and simultaneous headspace-solid-phase micro-extraction of the derivative compounds followed by GC-MS/MS analysis. The main experimental parameters influencing the extraction efficiency selected for optimization were pre-incubation time, incubation temperature, agitator speed, extraction time, desorption temperature, buffer (pH, concentration and volume), headspace volume, sample salinity, preparation of standards, ultrasonic time and desorption time in the injector. The main factors (excitation voltage, excitation time, ion source temperature, isolation time and electron energy) affecting the GC-IT-MS/MS response were also optimized using the same statistical design of experiments. The proposed method presented good linearity (coefficient of determination R(2)>0.99) and repeatibilty (1-25%) for all the compounds under study. The accuracy of the method measured as the average percentage recovery of the compounds in spiked surface and marine waters was higher than 70% for all compounds studied. Finally, the optimized methodology was applied to real aqueous samples enabled the simultaneous determination of all compounds under study in surface and marine water samples obtained from Valencia region (Spain). CI - (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Coscolla, Clara AU - Coscolla C AD - Center for Public Health Research (FISABIO), 21 Avenida Catalunya, 46020 Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: coscolla_cla@gva.es. FAU - Navarro-Olivares, Santiago AU - Navarro-Olivares S AD - Center for Public Health Research (FISABIO), 21 Avenida Catalunya, 46020 Valencia, Spain. FAU - Marti, Pedro AU - Marti P AD - Center for Public Health Research (FISABIO), 21 Avenida Catalunya, 46020 Valencia, Spain. FAU - Yusa, Vicent AU - Yusa V AD - Center for Public Health Research (FISABIO), 21 Avenida Catalunya, 46020 Valencia, Spain. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20131128 PL - Netherlands TA - Talanta JT - Talanta JID - 2984816R RN - 0 (Organotin Compounds) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) SB - IM MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Organotin Compounds/*analysis MH - Solid Phase Microextraction/*methods MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - Design of experiments OT - GC-MS/MS OT - Organotin compounds OT - Solid-phase microextraction OT - Water analysis EDAT- 2014/01/10 06:00 MHDA- 2014/09/03 06:00 CRDT- 2014/01/10 06:00 PHST- 2013/07/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/11/13 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/11/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/01/10 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/01/10 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/09/03 06:00 [medline] AID - S0039-9140(13)00940-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.11.052 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Talanta. 2014 Feb;119:544-52. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2013.11.052. Epub 2013 Nov 28.