Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs) were explored as a greener extraction solvent for pharmaceuticals in drinking water. Because of easy synthesis, 1-methylimidazole (MIM) based ionic liquids were used with varying side chain lengths. Carbamazepine (brand name: Tegretol) was chosen as the drug for extraction based on literature levels found in post-treatment drinking water. [C7-MIM] [NTF2] and [C9-MIM] [NTF2] were found to have extracted carbamazepine at an average of 83.69% and 98.08% respectively. This was comparable to known extraction solvent dichloromethane which extracted 96.15% of the carbamazepine.

RTILs as a greener extraction solvent for carbamazepine

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