PMID- 35567359 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220802 LR - 20221207 IS - 1522-2683 (Electronic) IS - 0173-0835 (Linking) VI - 43 IP - 15 DP - 2022 Aug TI - Determination of parabens in wastewater samples via robot-assisted dynamic single-drop microextraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. PG - 1567-1576 LID - 10.1002/elps.202100390 [doi] AB - Dynamic single-drop microextraction (SDME) was automatized employing an Arduino-based lab-made Cartesian robot and implemented to determine parabens in wastewater samples in combination with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. A dedicated Arduino sketch controls the auto-performance of all the stages of the SDME process, including syringe filling, drop exposition, solvent recycling, and extract collection. Univariate and multivariate experiments investigated the main variables affecting the SDME performance, including robot-dependent and additional operational parameters. Under selected conditions, limit of detections were established at 0.3 microg/L for all the analytes, and the method provided linear responses in the range between 0.6 and 10 microg/L, with adequate reproducibility, measured as intraday relative standard deviations (RSDs) between 5.54% and 17.94%, (n = 6), and inter-days RSDs between 8.97% and 16.49% (n = 9). The robot-assisted technique eased the control of dynamic SDME, making the process more feasible, robust, and reliable so that the developed setup demonstrated to be a competitive strategy for the automated extraction of organic pollutants from water samples. CI - (c) 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH. FAU - Bocelli, Marcio David AU - Bocelli MD AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5232-0899 AD - Sao, Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. FAU - Vargas Medina, Deyber Arley AU - Vargas Medina DA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6528-8370 AD - Sao, Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. FAU - Rodriguez, Julie Paulin Garcia AU - Rodriguez JPG AD - Sao, Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. FAU - Lancas, Fernando Mauro AU - Lancas FM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8711-5905 AD - Sao, Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. FAU - Santos-Neto, Alvaro Jose AU - Santos-Neto AJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1719-8458 AD - Sao, Carlos Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220526 PL - Germany TA - Electrophoresis JT - Electrophoresis JID - 8204476 RN - 0 (Parabens) RN - 0 (Waste Water) RN - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, Liquid MH - *Liquid Phase Microextraction/methods MH - Parabens/analysis MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - *Robotics MH - Tandem Mass Spectrometry MH - Wastewater/analysis MH - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis OTO - NOTNLM OT - automated sample preparation OT - liquid chromatography OT - liquid-phase microextraction OT - mass spectrometry OT - single-drop microextraction EDAT- 2022/05/15 06:00 MHDA- 2022/08/03 06:00 CRDT- 2022/05/14 03:32 PHST- 2022/04/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/12/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/04/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/05/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/08/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/05/14 03:32 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/elps.202100390 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Electrophoresis. 2022 Aug;43(15):1567-1576. doi: 10.1002/elps.202100390. Epub 2022 May 26.