Single Drop Microextraction Using Commercial Capillary Electrophoresis Instruments
- 2 December 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 81 (1), 225-230
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac801886b
Abstract
Single drop microextraction (SDME), a simple and efficient sample preconcentration method for capillary electrophoresis (CE), was performed using two different commercial CE instruments. With a CE instrument providing adjustable forward and backward pressures, a single drop of an aqueous acceptor phase covered with a thin layer of an organic phase was formed at the capillary tip by programming the sample-handling functions of the instrument to perform 3-phase SDME where the organic film is essentially a membrane. Analytes from an acidic donor phase were concentrated into a basic acceptor phase yielding 190-fold enrichment in 10 min. When the donor phase was agitated using a microstirrer, a 2000-fold enrichment was obtained in 10 min. For a less flexible CE instrument, 2-phase SDME was carried out with a large volume pentanol drop held by a Teflon sleeve, yielding 110-fold enrichments in 30 min. We demonstrate a practical and automated SDME-CE technique with accuracy and reproducibility that is easy to practice to attain matrix isolation and high concentration sensitivity.Keywords
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