Abstract
An isocratic high-performance liquid chromatographic method with column switching and a direct injection system was developed to determine ciprofloxacin, a kind of quinolone derivative and its four kinds of metabolites in urine. A manually actuated system equipped with six port valves allowed a clean-up step with 0.01 M NaH2PO4 (pH 7.0) and the transfer of the analyte by a backflush mode. Also, the sample pretreatment condition for spiked urine was investigated to determine the optimum SPE condition for all analytes. All analytes showed over 92% recovery, using C18(10 μm, 30−50 μm), XAD-2 and XAD-4 as precolumn.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by KOSEF.