New procedures for arsenic speciation: A review

Considerable analytical methods have been developed for arsenic speciation in the last 5 years, the details of these new arsenic speciation procedures are thus summarized in present mini review. The performances of various sample pretreatment techniques including solid phase extraction, liquid–liquid extraction, hydride generation, liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, which offer effective preconcentration/separation and eventually contribute greatly to excellent sensitivity and selectivity in arsenic speciation when coupling with suitable detection mode, are discussed and compared thoroughly. High-performance liquid chromatography coupling with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and hydride generation atomic spectrometry are proved to be the most powerful hyphenated methodologies for arsenic speciation in environmental and biological matrices.