Multiwalled carbon nanotubes-doped polymeric ionic liquids coating for multiple headspace solid-phase microextraction

Multiple headspace solid-phase microextraction (SPME) has proved high efficiency in analysis of volatile compounds in complex samples. Fibers used in multiple headspace SPME must provide a logarithm relationship between peak areas and extraction times. The aim of this work was to investigate the potential of a carbon nanotube doped-polymeric ionic liquid (PILs) fiber for multiple headspace SPME of 2-naphthol in fruit samples, using gas chromatography (GC) for analysis. Based on theory of multiple headspace SPME, β parameters of fruit and aqueous samples were obtained and used for quantitation. The interference effects of sample matrix on proposed multiple headspace SPME method were investigated and compared with that of headspace SPME by determination of significant differences (P) of peak areas. It showed high independence from matrix effects. The proposed multiple headspace SPME-GC method also exhibited high repeatability (relative standard deviation of 2.56%) and recoveries (81.9–110%) for the analysis of real samples.