Issue 20, 2022

Novel tributyl phosphate-based hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent: application in simultaneous liquid–liquid microextraction of parabens and their metabolite in surface water samples

Abstract

A novel deep eutectic solvent (DES) with tributyl phosphate (TBP) as hydrogen bond acceptor and D,L-menthol (M) as hydrogen bond donor (HBD) was synthesized for the first time. M, a natural perfume, was selected as the HBD of the promising DES to tailor the extraction capacity and greenify the extraction solvent. The designed TBP–M (molar ratio 1 : 2)-based DES was applied in the simultaneous liquid–liquid microextraction (LLME) of a group of parabens (PBs) and their metabolite (p-hydroxybenzoic acid, PHBA) with wide polarity range in surface water samples. The developed LLME was combined with high-performance liquid chromatography and showed low detection limits (0.5–0.9 μg L−1) and good linearity (R2 ≥ 0.9983), precisions (RSDs ≤ 7.6%) and recoveries (86.0% to 110%) under the optimum conditions. The presented procedure has the features of simplicity, inexpensiveness, effectiveness and reliability, and the novel DES has great potential in the highly effective and simultaneous extraction for compounds with different polarities such as PBs and PHBA in complex real water samples.

Graphical abstract: Novel tributyl phosphate-based hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent: application in simultaneous liquid–liquid microextraction of parabens and their metabolite in surface water samples

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Jun 2022
Accepted
07 Sep 2022
First published
21 Sep 2022

Green Chem., 2022,24, 8005-8013

Novel tributyl phosphate-based hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent: application in simultaneous liquid–liquid microextraction of parabens and their metabolite in surface water samples

J. Cao, Y. Liu and F. Zhao, Green Chem., 2022, 24, 8005 DOI: 10.1039/D2GC02097A

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