Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1601, Issue -, Pages 27-34Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2019.05.004
Keywords
Polymeric microspheres; Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry; d-SPE; Water dispersibility; Hydrophilic-hydrophobic transition; Environmental samples
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2017MB011]
- Key R&D Program of Shandong Province [2017CXGC0223]
- Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region [3132667, 4053152]
- Funds for Fostering Distinguished Young Scholar of Shandong Academy of Sciences
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Multifunctional polymeric microspheres were prepared using hyper-cross-linking chemistry combined with surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization. The synthesized microspheres exhibited good water dispersibility, a high surface area, and pH/thermo dual-responsiveness. Fluoroquinolones (FQs), which contains a hydrophilic piperazine ring and hydrophobic fluorine atoms, were used as target analytes to assess the performance of the microspheres as a sorbent for dispersive solid-phase extraction (d-SPE). The d-SPE experimental parameters, including extraction time, amount of microspheres, extraction temperature, and sample solution pH, as well as the desorption conditions, were systematically studied. Coupled with LC-MS/MS, an analytical method for analysis of trace-level FQs in water samples was developed and validated. Under optimal conditions, linearity with correlation coefficients (r) of >0.99 was achieved in the concentration range of 0.02-10 mu g L-1. The limits of detection and quantification for the selected FQs were 5.0-6.7 and 12-20 mu g L-1, respectively. High recovery values (93.1%-97.2%), a high enrichment factor (180), and good precision (RSD < 8%, n = 6) were obtained for FQ determination in spiked purified water samples. It was proposed that hydrophilic-hydrophobic transition induced by stretching and shrinking of polymer chains under different pH and temperature conditions offered good control of the surface wettability and altered the extraction behavior. The developed method was validated and was successfully applied to the analysis of FQ,s in environmental water samples, meat and milk samples. These results demonstrated that the water-dispersible polymeric microspheres have good potential for use in separation and extraction techniques. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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