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Authors: Barahona F, Turiel E, Martín-Esteban A
Article Title: Molecularly imprinted polymer grafted to porous polyethylene frits: A new selective solid-phase extraction format.
Publication date: 2011
Journal: Journal of Chromatography A
Volume: 1218
Issue: (40)
Page numbers: 7065-7070.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.07.092
Alternative URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021967311011319

Abstract: In this paper, a novel format for selective solid-phase extraction based on a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is described. A small amount of MIP has been synthesized within the pores of commercial polyethylene (PE) frits and attached to its surface using benzophenone (BP), a photo-initiator capable to start the polymerisation from the surface of the support material. Key properties affecting the obtainment of a proper polymeric layer, such as polymerisation time and kind of cross-linker were optimised. The developed imprinted material has been applied as a selective sorbent for cleaning extracts of thiabendazole (TBZ), as model compound, from citrus samples. The use of different solvents for loading the analyte in the imprinted frits was investigated, as well as the binding capacity of the imprinted polymer. Imprinted frits showed good selectivity when loads were performed using toluene and a linear relationship was obtained for the target analyte up to 1000 ng of loaded analyte. Prepared composite material was applied to the SPE of TBZ in real samples extracts, showing an impressive clean-up ability. Calibrations showed good linearity in the concentration range of 0.05 - 5.00 μg -1, referred to the original solid sample, and the regression coefficients obtained were greater than 0.996. The calculated detection limit was 0.016 μg -1, low enough to satisfactory analysis of TBZ in real samples. RSDs at different spiking levels ranged below 15% in all the cases and imprinted frits were reusable without loss in their performance
Template and target information: thiabendazole, TBZ
Author keywords: molecular imprinting, Solid-phase extraction, Frits, grafting, Thiabendazole, Citrus samples

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