Pierre Doumenq. A simple GC-MS method for the determination of diphenylamine, tolylfluanid propargite and phosalone in liver fractions. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications, Elsevier, 2019, 1113, pp.(A. Kadar) and ludovic.peyre-6 teisseire@hotmail.fr (L. Peyre) 7 8 ABSTRACT 9In this study, an accurate and robust gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method was developed for 10 quantitative analysis of diphenylamine, tolylfluanid, propargite and phosalone in liver fractions. 11Different injector parameters were optimized by an experimental design of experiment technique 12 (central composite design). An optimal combination of injector temperature (°C), splitless time (min) 13 and overpressure (KPa) values enabled to maximize the chromatographic responses. Sample preparation 14 was based on protein precipitation using trichloroacetic acid followed by liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) 15 of the pesticides with hexane. All compounds were quantified without interference in selected ion 16 monitoring mode using endrin as internal standard. The calibration curves for diphenylamine, 17 tolylfluanid, propargite and phosalone compounds were linear over the concentration range of 18 0.1 to 25 µM (i.e.0.1, 0.5, 2.0, 5.0, 15.0 and 25.0 µM) ) with determination coefficients (R 2 ) higher than 19 0.999. A lower limit of quantification of 0.1 µM was obtained for all analytes, i.e. 422.5, 868.0, 876.2 20 and 919.5 µg/kg of liver fraction (hepatocytes) for diphenylamine, tolylfluanid, propargite and 21 phosalone, respectively. All compounds showed extraction recoveries higher than 93%, with a 22 maximum RSD of 3.4%. Intra-and inter-day accuracies varied from 88.4 to 102.9% and, imprecision 23 varied from 1.1 to 6.7%. Stability tests demonstrated that all pesticides were stable in liver extracts 24 during instrumental analysis (20°C in the autosampler tray for 72 h) following three successive freeze-25 thaw cycles and, at -20°C for up to 12 months. This simple and efficient analytical procedure is thus 26 suitable for assessing mammals liver contamination or metabolism studies. 27