Semi-covalent imprinted polymer using propazine methacrylate as template molecule for the clean-up of triazines in soil and vegetable samples

J Chromatogr A. 2006 May 12;1114(2):255-62. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2006.02.051. Epub 2006 Mar 10.

Abstract

A semi-covalent imprinted polymer was prepared by precipitation polymerisation using propazine methacrylate as template molecule, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate as cross-linker and toluene as porogen. After removal of propazine by basic hydrolysis of the covalent bond, the optimum loading, washing and elution conditions for the solid-phase extraction of the selected triazines were established. The binding sites present in the polymeric matrix were characterised by fitting the experimental results of several rebinding studies to the Langmuir-Freundlich isotherm. Subsequently, an analytical methodology based on molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction (MISPE) was developed for the determination of several triazinic herbicides in soil and vegetable samples. Following this procedure, a good degree of clean-up of the sample extracts was easily achieved, allowing the HPLC-UV determination of selected triazines in complex samples at low concentration levels.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Food Contamination / analysis*
  • Methacrylates / chemistry*
  • Polymethacrylic Acids / chemistry*
  • Soil Pollutants / isolation & purification*
  • Solanum tuberosum / chemistry
  • Triazines / chemistry
  • Triazines / isolation & purification*
  • Zea mays / chemistry

Substances

  • Methacrylates
  • Polymethacrylic Acids
  • Soil Pollutants
  • Triazines
  • propazine methacrylate
  • ethylene dimethacrylate