Extraction and Determination of Two Antidepressant Drugs in Human Plasma by Dispersive Liquid-Liquid MicroextractionaEuro'HPLC

In this study, an effective method of ultrasound-assisted ionic liquid based dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (UA-IL-DLLME) coupled with HPLC was applied for extraction and determination of two antidepressant drugs: venlafaxine hydrochloride and amitriptyline hydrochloride from human plasma samples. Three ionic liquids were studied: 1-butyl-3-methyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate, 1-hexyl-3- methyl imidazolium hexa-fluoro-phosphate, and 1-octyl-3-methyl imidazolium hexafluorophosphate [C8MIM][PF6]. Various factors affect the stages and efficiency of extraction, some of which are pH of sample solution, type and volume of ionic liquid, the time of ultrasonication, centrifuging time and rate, and the ionic strength of solution. In this research, optimum conditions were obtained as 55 mu L of [C8MIM][PF6] selected as ionic liquid, pH 11, 2% NaCl, 4 min ultrasonication and 5 min centrifuging at 3500 rpm. Under the optimized conditions, the linearity was obtained in the range of 0.2 to 250 mu g/L. The limits of detection were 0.5 mu g/L for venlafaxine and 0.8 mu g/L for amitriptyline. Pre-concentration factors were 1.3 x 10(3) for venlafaxine and 1.2 x 10(3) for amitriptyline. The UA-IL-DLLME method coupled with HPLC was successfully used for the determination of venlafaxine and amitriptyline spiked into the real samples of human plasma.