A Polyacrylate Cotton-based Pipette Tip Micro-solid-phase Extraction Technique Coupled with High-performance Liquid Chromatography for Carvedilol Determination in Aqueous Media

Introduction: In this work, a polyacrylate polymer was synthesized into a pipette tip containing cotton fibers and used to extract carvedilol from water and urine samples. Methods: A high-performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet detection method was developed, which demonstrated the suitability of the purposed pipette tip micro-solid-phase extraction device. Factors affecting the fabrication procedure and polymer quality were studied and optimized. In the next step, the sample preparation process (including extraction and desorption) was fully optimized, and the optimized method was validated. Results: A coating with suitable mechanical and chemical stability was achieved. Its structure was successfully characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Within-batch and between-batch fabrication reproducibility were obtained at 3.0 and 9.0 %, respectively. The developed method displayed a limit of detection of 1.1 µg L-1 when 1.5 mL of sample was processed, and it was linear in the concentration range of 3.3-350 µg L-1 with LLOQ of 5 µg L-1 . The polyacrylate cotton-based pipette tip was finally used to extract carvedilol from aqueous media with acceptable recoveries of 92-106%. Conclusion: The proposed method is simple and fast and requires low sample volumes. In addition, this method has been evaluated in terms of greenness with three different tools, and the evaluation results with all three tools have shown that this method is one of the green and environmentally friendly methods.