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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
Volume 40, Issue 18, Pages 3703-3709Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201700222
Keywords
environmental and biological samples; homogeneous liquid-liquid microextraction; ion pairs; paraquat; switchable-hydrophilicity solvent
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- Deputy of Research of Tehran University of Medical Sciences [95-02-30-32202]
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An approach involving ion-pair switchable-hydrophilicity solvent-based homogeneous liquid-liquid microextraction coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography has been applied for the preconcentration and separation of paraquat in a real sample. A mixture of triethylamine and water was used as the switchable-hydrophilicity solvent. The pH was regulated using carbon dioxide; hence the ratio of the ionized and non-ionized form of triethylamine could control the optimum conditions. Sodium dodecyl sulfate was utilized as an ion-pairing agent. The ion-associate complex formed between the cationic paraquat and sodium dodecyl sulfate was extracted into triethylamine. The separation of the two phases was carried out by the addition of sodium hydroxide, which changed the ionization state of triethylamine. The effects of some important parameters on the extraction recovery were investigated. Under the optimum conditions (500 mu L of the extraction solvent, 1 mg sodium dodecyl sulfate, 2.0 mL of 10 mol/L sodium hydroxide, and pH 4), the limit of detection and the limit of quantification were 0.2 and 0.5 mu g/L, respectively, with preconcentration factor of 74. The precision (RSD, n = 10) was < 5%. The recovery of the analyte in environmental and biological samples was in the range of 90.0-92.3%.
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