Preparation of Glutathione Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Microspheres by Reversed Phase Suspension Polymerization

Abstract

Molecularly imprinted polymer microspheres (MIPMs) for Glutathione had been prepared by the reversed phase suspension polymerization method; MIPMs were synthesized by using acrylamide and N-vinyl pyrrolidone as functional monomers. N,N’-methylenebisacrylamide and dimethyl diallyl ammonium chloride were the cross-linkers and H2O2 and Vc were redox initiators, Span-80 was the surfactant used and cyclohexane was the oil phase. Our work can provide a method to obtain ball MIPMs, and in this way, the destruction of acting sites because powdery MIPMs could be avoided. Moreover, the low concentration of cross-linker results in imprinted sites not being formed during the reversed phase suspension polymerization. The double cross-linkers not only solved this problem, but they also enlarged the selection range of the template, monomer and cross-linker. Simultaneously, there’s obviously a significant amount of synergy between the two cross-linkers that perhaps improve the adsorption capacity and selectivity. The conditions were investigated and optimized, and the optimum conditions were obtained as follows: the ratio of nAM/nNVP was 2; the optimum temperature and time were 50°C and 4.5 h; and, the dosage of GSH, DMDAAC and Vc were 0.8 g, 14 g and 0.023 g, respectively, under the optimum conditions, GSH-MIPM was prepared and showed the adsorption capacity was 75 mg · g−1. Also, based on the samples prepared at the starting process and under optimal conditions, the adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherm were investigated and analyzed, respectively.