title: Room temperature ionic liquids enhanced the speciation of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) by hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction combined with flame atomic absorption spectrometry.
abstract: A new method for the speciation of Cr(VI) and Cr(III) based on enhancement effect of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) for hollow fiber liquid phase microextraction (HF-LPME) combined with flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) was developed. Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) and diethyldithiocarbamate (DDTC) were used enhancement reagents and chelating reagent, respectively. The addition of room temperature ionic liquids led to 3.5 times improvement in the determination of Cr(VI). In this method, Cr(VI) reacts with DDTC yielding a hydrophobic complex, which is subsequently extracted into the lumen of hollow fiber, whereas Cr(III) is remained in aqueous solutions. The extraction organic phase was injected into FAAS for the determination of Cr(VI). Total Cr concentration was determined after oxidizing Cr(III) to Cr(VI) in the presence of KMnO(4) and using the extraction procedure mentioned above. Cr(III) was calculated by subtracting of Cr(VI) from the total Cr. Under optimized conditions, a detection limit of 0.7 ng mL(-1) and an enrichment factor of 175 were achieved. The relative standard deviation (RSD) was 4.9% for Cr(VI) (40 ng mL(-1), n=5). The proposed method was successfully applied to the speciation of chromium in natural water samples with satisfactory results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Material, Yulin Normal College, Yulin, Guangxi 537000, China. cjzeng@126.com
authors.forename: Chujie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Neng
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Jiaoting
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002857:Chromium / Q000737:chemistry*; D007220:Industrial Waste; D052578:Ionic Liquids / Q000737:chemistry; D059627:Liquid Phase Microextraction / Q000379:methods; D045483:Rivers; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic / Q000379:methods; D013696:Temperature; D062065:Wastewater; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002857:Chromium; D007220:Industrial Waste; D052578:Ionic Liquids; D062065:Wastewater; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C074702:chromium hexavalent ion