Abstract4-Methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-one is well known solvent in the name of propylene carbonate (PC) and has good solvent properties, e.g. low toxicity, less flammable, high density and less viscous, nevertheless the application of PC in solvent extraction has only been considered in a few cases. Then, availability of PC to solvent extraction was examined by applying it to the extraction of three different kinds of analyte, hydrophilic neutral species, a chelate and an ion association complex. At first, 6 water miscible solvents, i.e., methanol, isopropanol, tert-butanol, acetone, acetonitrile and tetrahydrofuran were arbitrarily selected as hydrophilic neutral species and the extractability of PC and cyclohexane for these solvents were examined. Dioctyldiglycolamic acid (Abbreviate as DODGAA) complex of lanthanide (Ln 3+ ) was chosen as an example of chelate extraction and was extracted with PC and n-hexane, respectively. Ion association extraction was investigated with the extractability of bis(1,10-phenanthroline) iron(II) complex (Fe(phen) 3 2+ 2X -) by using PC, toluene and nitrobenzene. In all cases, PC showed the significant extractability compared to common solvents.