Use of ZIF-8-derived nanoporous carbon as the adsorbent for the solid phase extraction of carbamate pesticides prior to high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis

In this work, a chemically and thermally robust and highly porous zeolite-type metal-organic framework, zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8), was used as both a precursor and a template and furfuryl alcohol as a second precursor to synthesize a nanoporous carbon. The prepared ZIF-8-derived nanoporous carbon was used as the solid-phase extraction adsorbent for the extraction of carbamate pesticides from cabbage and water samples. The adsorbed analytes were eluted with acetonitrile for the determination by high performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet detection. The high surface area, high porosity, good stability and fast adsorption/desorption kinetics of the material enabled it to have a high adsorption capacity and good adsorption performance. Under optimum conditions, good linearity for the analytes in the range of 0.5-100 ng g(-1) and 0.05-20 ng mL(-1) existed for cabbage and water samples with the correlation coefficients of 0.9968-0.9980 and 0.9990-0.9995, respectively. The limits of detection (S/N=3) for the analytes were in the range of 0.25-0.1 ng g(-1) and 0.01-0.02 ng mL(-1) for the cabbage and water samples, respectively. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) for intra-day and the inter-day determinations of the analytes were below 7.0% and 12.5%, respectively. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.