Development of Ionic Liquid-Based Dispersive Liquid–Liquid Microextraction Assisted by Acetone-Based Salting-Out Extraction for Multiclass Pesticide Quantification in Tomato Using HPLC–DAD
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An ionic liquid-based dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction (IL-DLLME) technique with low LODs, high enrichment factors, and reduced solvent use was devised for the extraction and determination of multiclass pesticide residues in tomato samples. The extraction process uses acetone for the initial extraction of pesticides from tomatoes, followed by dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction using 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate as the extraction solvent. The critical parameters that affect the extraction efficiency, such as the type and volume of the extraction solvent, the volume of the dispersive solvent, the type and volume of the ionic liquid, pH, and salt addition, were meticulously optimized. Under these optimized conditions, the method exhibited robust linearity (R2 ≥ 0.9960), low limits of detection (2.0–7.3 µg/kg) and quantification (5.6–19.4 µg/kg), along with satisfactory precision (RSD ≤ 10.4%) and recovery rates (88.0 to 105.3%) for the pesticides of interest. The proposed method represents a promising tool for routine pesticide monitoring in food quality control laboratories.
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Separation sciences, in all their various forms such as chromatography, field-flow fractionation, and electrophoresis, provide some of the most powerful techniques in analytical chemistry and are applied within a number of important application areas, including archaeology, biotechnology, clinical, environmental, food, medical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, polymer and biopolymer research. Beyond serving analytical purposes, separation techniques are also used for preparative and process-scale applications. The scope and power of separation sciences is significantly extended by combination with spectroscopic detection methods (e.g., laser-based approaches, nuclear-magnetic resonance, Raman, chemiluminescence) and particularly, mass spectrometry, to create hyphenated techniques. In addition to exciting new developments in chromatography, such as ultra high-pressure systems, multidimensional separations, and high-temperature approaches, there have also been great advances in hybrid methods combining chromatography and electro-based separations, especially on the micro- and nanoscale. Integrated biological procedures (e.g., enzymatic, immunological, receptor-based assays) can also be part of the overall analytical process.