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Polymer-coated magnetic nanospheres for preconcentration of organochlorine and pyrethroid pesticides prior to their determination by gas chromatography with electron capture detection

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Magnetic polymer nanospheres were prepared and used as adsorbents for the extraction of organochlorine and pyrethroid pesticides from water samples. The adsorbents were synthesized by miniemulsion polymerization of N-vinylimidazole and divinylbenzene and simultaneous encapsulation of oleic acid-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles. Following desorption with ethyl acetate, the target analytes β-hexachlorocyclohexane, δ-hexachlorocyclohexane, p,p’-DDE, heptachlor, trans-chlordan, cis-chlordan, bifenthrin, β-cypermethrin, δ-methrin, λ-cyhalothrin and esfenvalerate were determined by gas chromatography with electron capture detection. Desorption conditions, extraction times and sample volume were screened by Plackett-Burman design and optimized by Box-Behnken design. Under the optimum conditions, the organochlorines can be quantified in the 20 to 400 ng L−1 concentration range, and the pyrethroids in the 400 to 4000 ng L−1 concentration range. The recoveries of organochlorines and pyrethroids from spiked real water samples are between 77.6 and 97.3 %, with relative standard deviations between 0.9 and 10.0 %. The method for magnetic solid phase extraction described here is fast, simple and friendly to the environment.

Fe3O4 nanoparticles coated with oleic acid (OA) were covered with a copolymer prepared from N-vinylimidazole (VI) and divinylbenzene (DB), and then used for magnetic solid phase extraction of organochlorine and pyrethroid pesticides. Recoveries from spiked water samples range from 77.6 to 97.3 %.

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (J1210064,21277171,21307155), Chinese Universities Scientific Fund 2015LX005 and Beijing Nova program YETP0323.

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    Genggeng Yang, Zeying He, Xueke Liu, Chang Liu, Jing Zhan, Donghui Liu, Peng Wang & Zhiqiang Zhou

  2. Department of Applied Chemistry, China Agricultural University, No.2 Yuanmingyuan West Road, Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

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Yang, G., He, Z., Liu, X. et al. Polymer-coated magnetic nanospheres for preconcentration of organochlorine and pyrethroid pesticides prior to their determination by gas chromatography with electron capture detection. Microchim Acta 183, 1187–1194 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-015-1725-z

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