Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction Coupled with Gas Chromatography for the Determination of Orthochlorophenol in Environmental Water Samples

A rapid and effective method, the dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction(DLLME) with gas chromatography, has been developed for the extraction and determination of OCP in environmental water samples. The factors relevant to the efficiency of DLLME were investigated and optimized. Under the optimum conditions, such as 150 mu L of dichloromethane as extraction solvent, 1.2 mL acetone as dispersive agent, 8 minutes extraction time, and without salt addition, the linear response of this method was in the range of 0.5 similar to 5000 mu g L-1 (r = 0.9981), the relative standard deviation (RSD) for 500 mu g L-1 and 1000 mu g L-1 of OCP was 5.2% and 12.6% (n = 6), respectively. The detection limit (3 sigma) was 0.08 mu g L-1. The developed method was successfully applied to the determination of trace amount of OCP in three kinds of real environmental water samples, the spiked recoveries were in the range of 87.4%similar to 108.0%.