“…This rapid and automatable method is a potential tool for routine quantification of BUP and its metabolites. Nevertheless, the most commonly employed sample pretreatment for the monitoring of BUP, MTD and their metabolites in biological matrices are liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) [18][19][20][21][22][23]26,40,47,49,50,[52][53][54]56,60,61,63,65,68,69,71,74,76,77,80,[88][89][90][91][92] and solid-phase extraction (SPE) [7,24,28,38,41,[43][44][45][46]48,55,68,72,73,75,[93][94][95]. The major benefits of LLE are its simplicity a...…”