Extraction of amphetamines and methylenedioxyamphetamines from urine using a monolithic silica disk-packed spin column and high-performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection

To overcome the limitations of solid-phase extraction, we developed a device comprising a spin column packed with octadecyl silane-bonded monolithic silica for extracting amphetamines and methylenedioxyamphetamines from urine. Urine (0.5 mL), buffer (0.4 mL), and methoxyphenamine (internal standard) were directly put into the preactivated column. The column was centrifuged (3000 rpm, 5 min) for sample loading and washed. The adsorbed analytes were eluted and analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography, without evaporation. The results were as follows: linear curves (drug concentrations of 0.2-20 mu g/mL); correlation coefficients >0.99; detection limit, 0.1 mu g/mL The proposed method is not only useful for drugs from biological materials but also highly reproducible for the analysis of these drugs in urine. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.