Speciation of organotin compounds in water and seafood samples by online hyphenation of porous polymer-based magnetism-enhanced in-tube solid phase microextraction and HPLC

Abstract

A new strategy based on online hyphenation of magnetism-enhanced in-tube solid phase microextraction (ME-SPME) and HPLC was developed for speciation of organotin compounds (OTCs) in water and seafood samples. Task specific porous polymer embedded magnetic nanoparticles (TPM) was fabricated in capillary and utilized as the microextraction column (MEC) of ME-SPME. The implement of magnetic field during extraction duration obviously improved extraction efficiencies of prepared TPM/MEC towards studied TOCs from 48.0-77.0% to 84.2–99.7%. Under the optimized extraction parameters, sensitive and automatic approach for the quantification of TOCs was developed by online hyphenation of ME-SPME and HPLC with fluorescence detection. The limits of detection for water and seafood samples were in the ranges of 0.0030–1.5 μg/L and 0.71–14 μg/kg, respectively. The established method was employed to measure low contents of studied OTCs in actual samples, and the recoveries at different fortified contents varied from 80.2% to 116% with satisfactory reproducibility (RSDs below 10%). In addition, confirmation experiments were adopted to inspect the accuracy of introduced method.