A proof of concept of a novel automatic sample cleanup approach for metal assays in troublesome matrixes as a front-end sample pre-treatment to inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy - ICP-OES - is herein presented. Target metals, namely, copper, lead, and cadmium were complexed in-system quantitatively using ammonium pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (APDC) and transferred into a minute volume of toluene as extractant employing lab-in-syringe magnetic stirring-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (LIS-MSA-DLLME). After discharge of the sample, the analytes were back-extracted into nitric acid and injected on-line into ICP-OES. To promote and expedite this process in-syringe, advantage was taken from oxidative decomposition of the chelate by potassium iodate, reported in this article for the first time. Experimental conditions for LIS-MSA-DLLME were optimized by Box-Benkhen multivariate analysis using the geometric mean of analyte recoveries as the desirability function. Times of extraction and back-extraction of 300s and 100s, respectively, pH 5.5 at 30mmol/L acetate, 300µL of extraction solvent, and 600µmol/L of APDC were finally applied. Online interfacing to ICP-OES for back-extract analysis yielded average repeatabilities for Cd, Cu, and Pb of 2.9%, 3.5%, and 3.5% with limits of detections (3s) of 1.9, 1.4, and 5.6ng/mL, respectively. Oxidative back-extraction was proven reliable for the determination of metal species in coastal seawater, surrogate digestive fluids and soil leachates with recovery values for Cd, Cu, and Pb ranging from 90% to 118%, 68% to 104%, and 86% to 112%, respectively.

Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Analytical Chemistry Heyrovského 1203 500 05 Hradec Králové Czech Republic

Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Analytical Chemistry Heyrovského 1203 500 05 Hradec Králové Czech Republic; FI TRACE Group University of the Balearic Islands Department of Chemistry Carretera de Valldemossa km 7 5 07122 Palma de Mallorca Spain

FI TRACE Group University of the Balearic Islands Department of Chemistry Carretera de Valldemossa km 7 5 07122 Palma de Mallorca Spain

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