Several analytical methods have been proposed for organic pollutants determination in water, specially endocrine disrupters. These methods are frequently based in solid phase extraction (SPE) followed by chromatographic determination (GC or HPLC). In this work it was used chemometric tools on experimental design and experimental data treatment to evaluate the principal factors in SPE process and their interactions. It was used water matrices fortified with hormones (17 b estradiol, estrone and 17 b ethinylestradiol) and HPLC/Fluorescence did analytical determination. It was used a factorial complete design. The choosed factors included: solid phase type, analytes concentration, sample volumen, eluent composition, analytes concentration and solvents to solid phase conditioning. The best condition obtained in this initial procedure included: 500 mL sample, conditioning SPE cartridge with acetone (4mL), methanol (6 mL) and water pH 3(10 mL), and analytes elution with acetone.
chemometry; estrogens; SPE
