An integrated solid phase extraction with ionic liquid-thiol-graphene oxide as adsorbent for rapid isolation of fipronil residual in chicken eggs

Abstract

A rapid and economic integrated solid-phase extraction (ISPE) method with ionic liquid-thiol-graphene oxide composite (IL-TGO) as a new adsorbent was established for the extraction of fipronil in chicken eggs. In this study, ISPE, a new form of solid-phase extraction, which combined the advantages of pipette-tip solid phase extraction (PT-SPE) and dispersive solid-phase extraction (DSPE), achieving rapid extraction of analyte with only a small amount of adsorbent. The three-dimensional porous IL-TGO was a new ideal adsorbent for fipronil due to the multiple adsorption interactions (π-π interaction, hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bond), large adsorption capacity and fast adsorption rate. For this ISPE procedure, the analyte was adsorbed by IL-TGO through the pipette tip mode and then eluted through dispersive mode. Under the optimized condition, the proposed method performed following merits: good linearity (r = 0.9999), precision (RSD ≤ 6.3%), high recoveries (83.7% to 97.7%), rapid extraction (16 min), low consumption of adsorbent (3.00 mg of IL-TGO). The excellent recyclability of the ISPE device and the reusability of IL-TGO were observed and high recovery of fipronil (> 90%) was obtained after fifteen cycles. This work might provide promising strategy for the sensitive extraction and analysis of trace levels of fipronil from egg products.