A novel approach based on ionic liquid-single-drop microextraction (IL-SDME) online coupling with capillary electrophoresis (CE) was used to determine a toxic alkaloid--colchicine. The IL-SDME procedure was optimized by extraction solvent, drop volume controlling, sample volume and pH, extraction time, and ionic strength. Under optimum conditions, enrichment factor was as much as 41-fold with a...

A single-drop microextraction (SDME) was developed for the analysis of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) (C2-C7) in water by gas chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detection. The significant parameters affecting the SDME performance such as selection of microextraction solvent, extraction time, stirring rate, sample pH and temperature, and ionic strength were studied and optimized. To lower li...

Direct analysis of samples, regardless their origin, is desirable although for the majority of cases unfeasible on account of the complexity of the sample matrix, inadequate concentration of the target analytes, or even incompatibility with the detector. In these cases, a sample pretreatment step is required for interference removal and analytes separation/preconcentration. Despite valuable adv...

This paper describes a new approach for the determination of amitriptyline in wastewater by ionic liquid based immersed droplet microextraction (IL-IDME) prior to high-performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection. 1-Hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([C6MIM][PF6]) was used as an ionic liquid. Various factors that affect extraction, such as volume of ionic liquid, sti...

In this work, biphenyl and biphenyl oxide were extracted by direct single drop microextraction (direct-SDME) and analyzed by gas chromatography flame ionization detection. The extraction occurred by suspending a 7 μL drop of toluene (as extracting solvent) containing acetonaphton (as internal standard) from the tip of a microsyringe in direct-SDME, respectively. The effect of different paramete...