A surfactant-mediated microextraction of synthetic dyes from solid-phase food samples into the primary amine-based supramolecular solvent

An effective and simple surfactant-mediated microextraction of synthetic dyes from solid-phase food samples into the primary amine-based supramolecular solvents is presented for the first time. The developed procedure involved two stages: (i) an isolation of dyes from a solid-phase food sample into a micellar solution of the primary amine; (ii) a preconcentration of the extracted dyes into the supramolecular solvent phase generated from the obtained micellar solution under a coacervation process. The microextraction procedure was applied for the determination of synthetic dyes in confectionery, dried fruits, and spices samples. The supramolecular solvent formed from aqueous micelle aggregates of 1-octylamine due to coacervation induced by thymol provided maximum extraction recovery values for synthetic dyes. In the proposed two-stage extraction procedure the micellar solution of primary amine was a media for analytes isolation from solid-phase and their followed preconcentration.

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An effective and simple microextraction method using a surfactant-mediated supramolecular solvent was developed for the separation and preconcentration of synthetic dyes from solid-phase food samples. The results showed that the supramolecular solvent induced by thymol provided maximum extraction recovery values for the synthetic dyes.