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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 523, Issue 2, Pages 251-258Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2004.07.052
Keywords
poly (methacrylic acid-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate); monolithic capillary column; in-tube SPME; liquid chromatography; theobromine; theophylline; caffeine
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A poly (methacrylic acid-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate) monolithic capillary column was prepared for in-tube solid-phase microextraction. Comparing with the commonly used open tubular extraction capillary, which cannot provide sufficient extraction efficiency since the ratio of its coating volume to that of the capillary void volume is relatively small, the monolithic column with greater phase ratio combined with convective mass transfer provides the possibility to improve the extraction efficiency with shorter capillary. As to poly (methacrylic acid-ethylene glycol dimethacrylate), its hydrophobic main chains and acidic pendant groups make it a superior material for extraction of basic analytes from aqueous matrix. An on-line monolithic capillary column solid phase microextraction (SPME) method was developed for determination of theobromine, theophylline and caffeine in serum samples. The high extraction efficiency was obtained for all the three analytes, yielding the detection limits of 12, 8 and 6.5 ng/mL by UV detection, respectively. Excellent method reproducibility (R.S.D. < 2.9%) was found over a linear dynamic range of 0.05-2 mug/mL in serum sample. The monolithic capillary column was proved to be reusable in coping with serum samples, which would facilitate practical determination of basic drugs. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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