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A molecularly imprinted polymer with integrated gold nanoparticles for surface enhanced Raman scattering based detection of the triazine herbicides, prometryn and simetryn

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A class-specific molecular imprinted polymer (MIP) is described for simultaneous recognition of prometryn and simetryn prior to their determination via a fingerprint signal (at 974 cm−1 and 1074 cm−1) in the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra that were acquired in the presence of gold nanoparticles. The imprinted nanoparticles were applied to the analysis of rice and wheat samples spiked with both herbicides. The method has fairly good recoveries (72.7–90.9%) with a relative standard deviation of 1.7–7.8%, and a 20 μg·kg−1 limit of detection. The imprint factors (compared to non-imprinted polymers) are 5.3 for prometryn and 4.2 for simetryn (both at 10 μg·mL−1 of the initial solution).

A MIP-SERS method was developed for simultaneous detection of triazine herbicides (prometryn and simetryn) in food samples.

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  • 05 March 2019

    The published version of this article, unfortunately, contains error. Author name was corrected as “A. M. Abd EI-Aty” - upper case of “i” in “EI-Aty”, instead of “A. M. Abd El-Aty” - lower case of “L”. Given in this paper is the correct author name.

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The authors are grateful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (contact No. 31471654, 31772071, and 31501571) and the China Agriculture Research System (NO. CARS-05-05A-03).

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  1. Institute of Quality Standards & Testing Technology for Agro-Products, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Mengmeng Yan, Yongxin She, Xiaolin Cao, Jun Ma, Ge Chen, Sihui Hong, Yong Shao, Miao Wang & Jing Wang

  2. Key Laboratory of Agro-product Safety and Quality, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Mengmeng Yan, Yongxin She, Xiaolin Cao, Jun Ma, Ge Chen, Sihui Hong, Yong Shao, Miao Wang & Jing Wang

  3. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, 12211, Egypt

    A. M. Abd El-Aty

  4. Department of Medical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Ataturk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey

    A. M. Abd El-Aty

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The original version of this article was revised: The published version of this article, unfortunately, contains error. Author name was corrected as “A. M. Abd EI-Aty” - upper case of “i” in “EI-Aty”, instead of “A. M. Abd El-Aty” - lower case of “L”. Given in this paper is the correct author name.

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Yan, M., She, Y., Cao, X. et al. A molecularly imprinted polymer with integrated gold nanoparticles for surface enhanced Raman scattering based detection of the triazine herbicides, prometryn and simetryn. Microchim Acta 186, 143 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-019-3254-7

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