A simple 96-well liquid–liquid extraction with a mixture of acetonitrile and methyl t-butyl ether for the determination of a drug in human plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry
- 4 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis
- Vol. 34 (2), 369-378
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0731-7085(03)00520-x
Abstract
A simple 96-well plate liquid–liquid extraction (LLE), liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) method has been developed and validated for the determination of a basic drug candidate in human plasma. Against the wisdom of conventional approaches, an aqueous/organic miscible solvent, acetonitrile, was used for liquid–liquid extraction along with methyl t-butyl ether. The use of acetonitrile effectively eliminated the formation of the irregular emulsion between aqueous/organic interfaces and modulated the polarity of the extraction solvents to achieve the desired recovery. This approach, which solved the emulsion problem, permitted the method to be automated using standard 96-well plate technology. A practical application was demonstrated through the use of this technique in the measurement of a novel drug in human plasma samples by LC/MS/MS. Chromatographic separation was achieved isocratically on a Phenomenox C18(2) Luna column ( mm, 5 μm). The mobile phase contained 60% of 0.1% formic acid and 40% acetonitrile. Detection was by positive ion electrospray tandem mass spectrometry. The standard curve, which ranged from 1.22 to 979 ng/ml, was fitted to a 1/x2 weighted quadratic regression model. The validation results show that this method was very rugged and had excellent precision and accuracy. The actual sample analysis results further demonstrated that this extraction procedure is well suited for real life applications. It is expected that with some modifications, this approach can be applied for the extraction of similar compounds from various biological fluids.Keywords
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