Separation methods for amino group-possessing pesticides in biological samples

The separation methods for pesticides include liquid–liquid extraction, solid-phase extraction and solid-phase microextraction, gas chromatography (GC), GC–mass spectrometry (MS), GC–MS–MS, high-performance liquid chromatography (LC), LC–MS and LC–MS–MS. This review deals with each technique commonly used for extraction, chromatographic separation and detection of amino group possessing pesticides, such as diazines, triazines, carbamates, dinitroanilines and chloroacetanilides in biological samples. The methods presented for analysis of the pesticides in complicated biological matrices seem to be easily applicable to surface or groundwater in environmental chemistry.