Magnetic Stirring-Assisted Dispersive Suspended Microextraction with Solidification of a Floating Organic Droplet for the Determination of Trace Fungicides in Water and Wine

Abstract

For the first time, a simple method for magnetic stirring-assisted dispersive suspended microextraction has been developed for the determination of three fungicides (azoxystrobin, diethofencarb, and pyrimethanil) in water and wine samples. The method is based on the solidification of a floating organic droplet coupled with high performance liquid chromatography. In the proposed method, the low toxicity solvent 1-dodecanol was used as the extractant. Both the extraction and phase separation process were performed with magnetic stirring. No centrifugation step was involved. After separating the two phases, the extraction solvent droplet was easily collected through solidification at lower temperature. Important parameters such as the kind and volume of organic extraction solvent, extraction and restoration speed, extraction and restoration time, and salt concentration were optimized. Under the optimal conditions, the limits of detection for the analytes varied from 0.14 to 0.26 µg L⁻¹. The enrichment factors ranged from 125–200. The linearity ranges were 1–2000 µg L⁻¹, yielding correlation coefficients (r) higher than 0.9990. The relative standard deviation (n = 6) at two spiked level of 0.2 µg mL⁻¹ and 4 µg L⁻¹ varied between 2.2% and 7.8%. Finally, the developed technique was successfully applied to determine target fungicides in real water and wine samples, where the obtained recoveries ranged from 83.8–105.3%

Keywords:

• Dispersive suspended microextraction
• Fungicides
• High performance liquid chromatography
• Water and wine analysis

Acknowledgments

The work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (30971948).

Notes

^a LR, linearity.

^b LOD, limit of detection.

^c LOQ, limit of quantification.

^d RSD, relative standard deviation.

^e EF, enrichment factor.

^a Water samples from tap water and South lake water of Wuhan. Wine samples were purchased from local supermarket.

^b N.D., not-detected.

^a LOD, Limit of detection.