Magnetic porous carbon derived from Co-doped metal-organic frameworks for the magnetic solid-phase extraction of endocrine disrupting chemicals

Metal-organic frameworks-5 (MOF-5) was explored as a template to prepare porous carbon due to its high surface area, large pore volume, and permanent nanoscale porosity. Magnetic porous carbon, Co@MOF-5-C, was fabricated by the one-step direct carbonization of Co-doped MOF-5. After carbonization, the magnetic cobalt nanoparticles are well dispersed in the porous carbon matrix, and Co@MOF-5-C displays strong magnetism (with the saturation magnetization intensity of 70.17emu/g), high-specific surface area, and large pore volume. To evaluate its extraction performance, the Co@MOF-5-C was applied as an adsorbent for the magnetic solid-phase extraction of endocrine disrupting chemicals, followed by their analysis with high-performance liquid chromatography. The developed method exhibits a good linear response in the range of 0.5-100ng/mL for pond water and 1.0-100 ng/mL for juice samples. The limits of detection (S/N = 3) for the analytes were in the range of 0.1-0.2 ng/mL.