Combination of ultrasound-assisted ionic liquid dispersive liquid-phase microextraction and high performance liquid chromatography for the sensitive determination of benzoylureas pesticides in environmental water samples

✍ Scribed by Qingxiang Zhou; Xiaoguo Zhang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 192 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1615-9306
• DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201000443

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper describes a new method for rapid and sensitive determination of diflubenzuron, flufenoxuron, triflumuron and chlorfluazuron in water samples by ultrasound‐assisted ionic liquid dispersive liquid‐phase microextraction in combination with HPLC. Ionic liquid 1‐hexyl‐3‐methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate ([C~6~MIM][PF~6~]) was used as the extraction solvent for the enrichment of four benzoylurea (BU) pesticides. Factors such as volume of [C~6~MIM][PF~6~], sonication time, sample pH, extraction time, centrifuging time and salting‐out effect were systematically investigated. Under the optimum conditions, an excellent linear relationship was achieved in the range of 1.0–100 μg/L. The detection limits varied from 0.21 to 0.45 μg/L and the precision of the method was below 6.9% (RSD, n=6). The proposed method was successfully applied for the determination of these BU pesticides in water samples and excellent spiked recoveries were achieved. All these results demonstrated that this procedure provided a new simple, rapid, easy to operate, efficient and sensitive method for the analysis of BU pesticides in aqueous samples.