Polydimethylsiloxane/ZIF-8@GO sponge headspace solid-phase extraction followed by GC-MS for the analysis of lavender essential oil

Abstract

A novel microwave-assisted (MA) headspace solid-phase extraction (HS-SPE) based on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/ZIF-8@GO sponge was developed for the simultaneous extraction and determination of essential oil constituents in lavender. The PDMS/ZIF-8@GO sponge with a high surface area and excellent adsorption capacity was successfully applied in the HS-SPE process. Microwave-assisted coupled with PDMS/ZIF-8@GO sponge headspace solid-phase extraction followed by GC-MS was proposed. Different experimental parameters were investigated. The optimal conditions were found to be as follows: 2:1 as the quality ratio of ZIF-8 to GO, ZIF-8@GO dosage of 30 mg, microwave power of 600 W, extraction time of 10 min and desorption solvent of n-hexane. This method was successfully applied to the analysis of 11 samples of lavender in different varieties. A total of 52 compounds were identified by the proposed method. A good linearity was observed from 14 to 800 ng with a correlation coefficient (R²) value of >0.99. Multivariate statistical analysis was used to establish the relationship between the varieties and the volatile components for further discriminant analysis. These results demonstrated that the MA-PDMS/ZIF-8@GO is an efficient, sensitive and small sample consumption method for the determination of the essential oil in dried plant materials.

Keywords: Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; Lavender essential oil; Polydimethylsiloxane/ZIF-8@GO; Solid-phase extraction.