Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction SBSE

FIGU RE 2.15 Schematic representation of the thermal desorption unit in SBSE. (Reprinted from Vercauteren, J., Peres, C., Devos, C., Sandra, P., Vanhaecke, F., and Moens, L., Anal. Chem., 73, 1509-1514, 2001. With permission from American Chemical Society.) 

Different applications of this methodology have been successfully carried out, for example, for PAHs, pesticides, and PCBs in water samples. 

To address the problems intrinsic to SPME, i.e., to increase Vp and thus Ep, while avoiding long extraction 

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Miniaturisation of scientific instruments, following on from size reduction of electronic devices, has recently been hyped up in analytical chemistry (Tables 10.19 and 10.20). Typical examples of miniaturisation in sample preparation techniques are micro liquid-liquid extraction (in-vial extraction), ambient static headspace and disc cartridge SPE, solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE). A main driving force for miniaturisation is the possibility to use MS detection. Also, standard laboratory instrumentation such as GC, HPLC [88] and MS is being miniaturised. Miniaturisation of the LC system is compulsory, because the pressure to decrease solvent usage continues. Quite obviously, compact detectors, such as ECD, LIF, UV (and preferably also MS), are welcome. 

Bicchi, C., loti, C., Rubiolo, P. and Sandra, P. (2002) Headspace sorptive extraction (HSSE), stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) and solid phase microextraction (SPME) applied to the analysis of roasted Arabica coffee and coffee brew. J.Agric. Food Chem. 50, 449-459. 

Abstract A relatively small number of mammalian pheromones has been identified, in contrast to a plethora of known insect pheromones, but two remarkable Asian elephant/insect pheromonal linkages have been elucidated, namely, (Z)-7-dodecen-1-yl acetate and frontalin. In addition, behavioral bioassays have demonstrated the presence of a chemical signal in the urine of female African elephants around the time of ovulation. Our search for possible ovulatory pheromones in the headspace over female African elephant urine has revealed for the first time the presence of a number of known insect pheromones. This search has been facilitated by the use of a powerful new analytical technique, automated solid phase dynamic extraction (SPDE)/GC-MS, as well as by novel macros for enhanced and rapid comparison of multiple mass spectral data files from Agilent ChemStation . This chapter will focus on our methodologies and results, as well as on a comparison of SPDE and the more established techniques of solid phase microextraction (SPME) and stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE). 

Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) is a more recent development, and offers some advantages over SPME (Baltussen, Sandra, David and Cramers 1999 ... 

Baltussen, E., Sandra, P., David, F. and Cramers, C. (1999) Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), a novel extraction technique for aqueous samples theory and principles. J. Microcolumn Sep. 11,737-747. 

Besides classical headspace analysis, simultaneous distillation-extraction and solvent extraction, new sampling and enrichment developments include solvent-assisted flavour evaporation (SAFE) [3] and sorptive techniques like SPME solid-phase microextraction (SPME) [4,5] and stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) [6], which are treated in a dedicated chapter in this book. This contribution will deal with advanced developments of GC techniques for improvement of separation and identification (classical multidimensional GC, or... 

Kreck, M., Scharrer, A., Bilke, S., Mosandl, A. (2002) Enantioselective analysis of monoter-pene compounds in essential oils by stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE)-enantio-MDGC-MS. Flavour Fragrance ]. 17 32-40. 

A novel solventless simple technique for extraction of organic analytes from aqueous samples, stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), was introduced by Baltus-sen et al. [41]. 

Bicchi C, Cordero C, lori C, Rubiolo P, Sandra P (2000) Headspace sorptive extraction (HSSE) in the headspace analysis of aromatic and medicinal plants. J High Resol Chromatogr 23 539 KreckM, Scharrer A, Bilke S, Mosandl A (2001) Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE)—enantio-MDGC-MS, a rapid method for the enantioselective analysis of chiral flavour compoimds in strawberries. Eur Food Res Technol 213 389... 

Stir-bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) is carried out using a commercially available glass stir bar (Twister, from Gerstel GmbH) coated with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). A special thermal desorption unit is necessary to introduce the extract into a GC. It can be applied to headspace extraction, but is intended for stirring liquid samples for extraction. The same coatings used for SPME can be used for SBSE, and thus similar selectivity should be observed. 

MEPS has so far been applied mainly to the analysis of drugs in biological samples only one application for the extraction of PAHs in water has been published.26 One of the major advantages of the MEPS design is that the packed syringe can be used many times over, for example, more than 400 times for water samples. Moreover, the technique permits a fast handling time in the analysis of PAHs in water, the speed enhancement being 15 and 100 times compared to the literature procedures of solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), respectively see Sections 4.2.3 and 4.2.4. 

Sorbent/ solid phase Solid phase extraction (SPE) Solid phase microextraction (SPME) Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) INCAT/OTT/in-tube-SPME SPDE Headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) Headspace stir-bar sorptive extraction (HS-SBSE) Purge-and-sorbent trapping Spray-and-sorbent trapping... 

This chapter focuses on three widely used techniques for extraction of semivolatile organics from liquids liquid-liquid extraction (LLE), solid-phase extraction (SPE), and solid-phase microextraction (SPME). Other techniques may be useful in selected circumstances, but these three techniques have become the extraction methods of choice for research and commercial analytical laboratories. A fourth, recently introduced technique, stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), is also discussed. 

Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), an approach theoretically similar to SPME, was recently introduced [141] for the trace enrichment of organic compounds from aqueous food, biological, and environmental samples. A stir bar is coated with a sorbent and immersed in the sample to extract the analyte from solution. To date, reported SBSE procedures were not usually operated as exhaustive extraction procedures however, SBSE has a greater capacity for quantitative extraction than SPME. The sample is typically stirred with the coated stir bar for a specified time, usually for less than 60 minutes, depending on the sample volume and the stirring speed, to approach equilibrium. SBSE improves on the low concentration capability of in-sample solid-phase microextraction (IS-SPME). 

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