Organochlorine Compounds in Fish Tissue from Connecticut Lakes

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcy R. Anderson ◽  
Robert M. Neumann ◽  
Robert J. Carley
Keyword(s):  
Fish Tissue ◽  
Organochlorine Compounds

scholarly journals Microwave-Assisted Extraction and Accelerated Solvent Extraction with Ethyl Acetate–Cyclohexane before Determination of Organochlorines in Fish Tissue by Gas Chromatography with Electron-Capture Detection

2000 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 1334-1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Weichbrodt ◽  
Walter Vetter ◽  
Bernd Luckas
Keyword(s):  
Solvent Extraction ◽  
Fish Tissue ◽  
Solvent Mixture ◽  
Organochlorine Compounds ◽  
Water Removal ◽  
Microwave Assisted Extraction ◽  
Microwave Assisted ◽  
Assisted Extraction ◽  
Quantitative Extraction

Abstract Focused open-vessel microwave-assisted extraction (FOV–MAE), closed-vessel microwave-assisted extraction (CV–MAE), and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) were used for extraction before determination of organochlorine compounds (polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT, toxaphene, chlordane, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorocyclohexanes, and dieldrin) in cod liver and fish fillets. Wet samples were extracted without the time-consuming step of lyophilization or other sample-drying procedures. Extractions were performed with the solvent mixture ethyl acetate–cyclohexane (1 + 1, v/v), which allowed direct use of gel-permeation chromatography without solvent exchange. For FOV–MAE, the solvent mixture removed water from the sample matrix via azeotropic distillation. The status of water removal was controlled during extraction by measuring the temperature of the distillate. After water removal, the temperature of the distillate increased and the solvent mixture became less polar. Only the pure extraction solvent allowed quantitative extraction of the organochlorine compounds. For CV–MAE, water could not be separated during the extraction. For this reason, the extraction procedure for wet fish tissue required 2 extraction steps: the first for manual removal of coextracted water, and the second for quantitative extraction of the organochlorine compounds with the pure solvent. Therefore, CV–MAE is less convenient for samples with high water content. For ASE, water in the sample was bound with Na2SO4. The reproducibility for each technique was very good (relative standard deviation was typically <10%); the slightly varying levels were attributed to deviations during sample cleanup and the generally low levels.

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