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[Display omitted] • An acid–induced dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction is developed. • Analytes are extracted by in situ formation of deep eutectic solvents with formed fatty acids. • The method is successfully used for detection of bisphenol A and alkylphenols. • The method is simple, rapid, sensitive, low cost, and environmentally friendly. • The new method expands the application pathway and scope of deep eutectic solvents. This study describes the development of an acid induced dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction method based on the in situ formation of hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents for the extraction of bisphenol A and alkylphenols from environmental water and beverage samples. Hydrochloric acid altered the hydrophilic-hydrophobic state of fatty acid salts to obtain hydrophobic fatty acids, which formed hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents with analytes in situ to extract the analytes. Under optimized conditions, the limits of detection and limits of quantitation were 0.03–0.1 μg L-1 and 0.12–0.3 μg L-1, the intraday and interday relative standard deviations were less than 3.9 %, and the enrichment factor was 29–32. The recoveries of bisphenol A and alkylphenols were 95.9–104.9 % and 86.9–105.0 %, respectively. The extraction process used only hydrochloric acid and fatty acid salts, and the extraction process required less than 1 min. This method has the advantages of simplicity, speed, low cost and environmental friendliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• One-step derivatization and TC-VA-LLME-SFDES method was developed. • Hydrophobic DESs were used as both reducing agent and extraction solvent. • Only 2 min was needed for derivatization and extraction process. • The method was applied for analysis of total Fe in water and food samples. • The method opened up the application of solid DESs in LLME technique. In our work, hydrophobic thymol-based deep eutectic solvents (DESs) with strong reducibility, a lower density than water, and a slightly higher melting point than room temperature were synthesized. Based on these solid DESs, one-step derivatization and temperature-controlled vortex-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction based on the solidification of a floating DES (TC-VA-LLME-SFDES) via UV–Vis spectrophotometry for the rapid determination of total iron was developed. The derivatization and TC-VA-LLME were carried out simultaneously by the addition of DES as both the reducing agent and extraction solvent. After optimization, the calibration curve (5–250 μg L−1, R2 = 0.9982), limit of detection (1.5 μg L−1), limit of quantitation (5.0 μg L−1), precision (≤4.0%) and enrichment factor (92) was obtained. This method was applied for the determination of total iron in water and food samples with satisfactory recoveries (85.4–106.2%). One-step derivatization and TC-VA-LLME only required 2 min. Furthermore, this method opened up the application of solid DESs in liquid–liquid microextraction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]