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Coupling polymer monolith microextraction to gas chromatography: determination of pyrethroids in water samples

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A sensitive method has been established for the determination of the pyrethroids (fenpropathrin and permethrin) in water samples. It is based on microextraction using monoliths composed of a poly-(glycidyl methacrylate-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) copolymer, and on detection by gas chromatography coupled to electron-capture detection. Experimental parameters including the flow rate and volume of the samples, the type, volume and flow rate of eluent and effect of salt addition were optimized. The limits of detection for fenpropathrin and permethrin are 0.5 and 2.7 ng mL−1, respectively. The intra-day and inter-day precisions were less than 5.5% and 9.0%. The method was successfully applied to determination of two pyrethroids in the tap and lake water samples and the accuracy was evaluated by recovery experiments.

The chromatograms of the Yanxi Lake water sample treated with PMME

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The authors would like to thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30971948) and Wuhan’s program for tackling key problem in science and technology (200760423155) for the financial support for this work.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China

    Lu Liu, Mei Zuo, Jing Cheng, Guzalnur Matsadiq & Hongbin Zhou

  2. Enshi Prefecture Tobacco Company, Hubei, 445000, China

    Mei Zuo

  3. School of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jinzhou, 434025, China

    Junkai Li

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Liu, L., Zuo, M., Cheng, J. et al. Coupling polymer monolith microextraction to gas chromatography: determination of pyrethroids in water samples. Microchim Acta 173, 127–133 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-010-0540-9

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