Abstract: This paper reports a combination of molecularly imprinted stir bar sorptive extraction and complementary molecularly imprinted polymer-sensor for the analysis of dopamine as a biomarker of several neurodegenerative diseases occurred at ultra trace level. This exploited iniferter initiated polymerization via ''surface grafting-from'' approach onto magnetic stir bar (for sorptive extraction) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes-ceramic electrode (for detection). Such hyphenation helped dual pre-concentration of dopamine in aqueous, biological and pharmaceutical samples. This enabled high sensitivity to achieve the stringent limit [limit of detection: 4.9 ng L-1, RSD = 2.4%, S/N = 3, cerebrospinal fluid] of clinical detection, without any problems of non-specific contributions and cross-reactivity
Template and target information: dopamine
Author keywords: Molecularly imprinted stir bar sorptive extraction, dopamine, ''Surface grafting-from'' approach, Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry, Real sample analysis