Hyper-crosslinked polymer nanoparticles as the solid-phase microextraction fiber coating for the extraction of organochlorines

Abstract

A hyper-crosslinked polymer benzenedimethanol (HCP-BDM) was synthesized and explored as a solid-phase microextraction (SPME) fiber coating material. To prepare the HCP-BDM, 1,4-benzenedimethanol monomer was self-condensed via a simple Friedel-Crafts alkylation reaction. The physical-chemical properties of the HCP-BDM material were characterized by infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric and analysis nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms. The HCP-BDM coated fiber demonstrated excellent adsorption performance for some organochlorine pesticides (OCPs). An effective HCP-BDM fiber-based SPME method combined with gas chromatography-micro electron capture detector was established for the analysis of the OCPs from various vegetable samples. The linear ranges were observed from their corresponding limits of quantification (LOQs) to 50 ng g−1 for the OCPs, with correlation coefficients varied from 0.9952 to 0.9992. Their limits of detection at S/N = 3 ranged from 0.058 to 0.14 ng g−1. The single fiber repeatability and fiber-to-fiber reproducibility, expressed as the relative standard deviations (RSDs), were from 3.4% to 8.8% and from 6.7% to 9.6%, respectively. The established method was finally applied to the analysis of the OCPs from cucumber, Chinese cabbage and tomato samples with satisfactory recoveries and repeatability.