“…These include * Correspondence: jana.skrlikova@googlemail.com dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME), 15,16 ionic liquid-based dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (IL-DLLME), 17 dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on solidification of floating organic drop (DLLME-SFO), 18 surfactant-assisted dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on the solidification of the floating organic drop (SA-DLLME-SFO), 19 one-step displacement dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (D-DLLME), 20 dispersive liquid-phase microextraction (DLPME), 21 task-specific ionic liquid-based ultrasoundassisted dispersive liquid-phase microextraction (UA-IL-DLPME), 22 and ionic liquid-based vortex assisted liquid-liquid microextraction (IL-VALLME) 23 coupled with a variety of spectrometric detection techniques, such as graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS), 18−20 flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS), 21 cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry (CV-AAS), 15,22 flow injection-hydride generation/cold vapor atomic absorption spectroscopy (FI-HG/CV-AAS), 17 cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectroscopic detection (CV-AFS), 23 and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES). 16 Besides the above-mentioned spectrometric detection techniques, the combination of DLLME, 24,25 IL-DLLME, 26−28 VALLME, 29 and IL-VALLME 30 with various chromatographic techniques, such as HPLC-ICP-MS, 24,26 HPLC-UV, 27 HPLC-CV-AFS, 29,30 HPLC-HG-AFS, 28 and GC-FID, 25 has also been described. The combination of solvent microextraction for mercury determination with other techniques, such as capillary electrophoresis, 31,32 electrochemical detections, 33−35 and corona discharge ionization ion mobility spectrometry, 36 occurs to a lesser extent.…”