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Jia Chen1, Xiao Li2, Anqi Huang2
1Key Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery (Ministry of Education), and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China; Scientific Research Center, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, Zhejiang, China.
Abstract:
A new type of high-density hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (DESs) were synthesized with nonionic surfactants as hydrogen bond acceptors and hexafluoroisopropanol (HFIP) as hydrogen bond donor. Brij-35 was selected as the optimal nonionic surfactant for the preparation of Brij-35-HFIP-DES (molar ratio 1:20). A vortex-assisted DES-based liquid-liquid microextraction method was proposed for determination of Sudan dyes in tomato chili sauces. The whole pretreatment process only needs 5 min and 1.1 mL of organic solvent. The method with HPLC-DAD shows high efficiency (enrichment factors 89-176 and extraction rates 61.0-74.6%) and good performance with linearity (R ≥ 0.9997) in 0.04-2 μg g-1 range, detection limits of 0.0045-0.0118 μg g-1, recoveries of 91.6-104.5% and intra-/inter-day precision below 8.0%. A "DES in water in DES" aggregate microstructure was observed in DES-rich phase. The proposed method is simple, quick, eco-friendly, and suits for the efficient extraction and accurate determination of Sudan dyes in tomato chili sauces.
