Rapid determination of pharmaceuticals from multiple therapeutic classes in wastewater by solid-phase extraction and ultra-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 4633-4643

  Sui, Qian ^a   Huang, Jun ^a   Deng, ShuBo ^a   Yu, Gang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Pharmaceuticals; Solid phase extraction; Tandem mass spectrometry; UPLC; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

EID: 74549202681     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0413-y     Document Type: Article

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