Carbon nanotube assisted sol-gel based hollow fiber solidphase
microextraction combined with pre-heating injectionhigh
performance liquid chromatography as a novel sample
preparation method for determination of nitroaromatics

• Authors: Mazyar Ahmadi Golsefidi , Zarrin Es’haghi , Ali Sarafraz-Yazdi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A solid-phase microextraction sorbent composite was developed
using the sol-gel technique. The multi-walled carbon nanotubes
(MWCNTs) were added to a nanocomposite and the homogeneous,
doped composite was injected into a polypropylene hollow
fiber. This device has been applied for the determination of
three nitro aromatic compounds, including m-nitroaniline (NA),
nitrobenzene (NB) and p-nitrotoluene (NT), in environmental waters
via direct immersion hollow fiber solid-phase microextraction
(HF-SPME) and high performance liquid chromatography-photodiode array
detector (HPLC-PDA). The results illustrated that this new technique is a
simple and reliable method for SPME device preparation: the prepared
sorbent did not swell in organic solvents and possessed high mechanical
strength; the SPME device employed was not fragile because of the
polypropylene protector fiber; and, the fiber was disposable such that no
carry-over effects were present. A homemade, pre-heating electrical device
was designed for the back-extraction and pre-concentration of the analytes
and was utilized before the HPLC injection step. Using this trap significantly
increased the efficiency and analyte pre-concentration factors. In optimal
conditions, the detection limits of the analytes varied between 0.1 and
3.0 ng mL-1 (n=8), precision was in the range of 0.41–4.19% (n = 3)
and linear ranges were within 1.0 - 1000 ng mL-1 for m-nitroaniline;
0.5 - 1000 ng mL-1 for nitrobenzene and 5.0 - 1000 ng mL-1 for
p-nitrotoluene. The method was successfully applied to the analysis of
environmental water samples with recoveries from 87.9 to 96.1%.

Keywords

EN

High performance liquid chromatography; Hollow fiber solid-phase microextraction(HF-SPME); Multiwalled carbon nanotubes; Sol-gel • Nitro aromatics

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Sample Preparation
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 1-9

Dates

online

10 - 06 - 2013

accepted

12 - 03 - 2013

received

29 - 9 - 2012

Contributors

author

Mazyar Ahmadi Golsefidi

• Department of Chemistry,
  Faculty of Sciences, Gorgan Branch,
  Islamic Azad University,
  Gorgan, Iran

author

Zarrin Es’haghi

• Department of Chemistry,
  Payame Noor University,
  19395-4697 Tehran,
  I.R. of IRAN

author

Ali Sarafraz-Yazdi

• Department of Chemistry,
  Faculty of Sciences,
  Ferdowsi University of Mashhad,
  Mashhad, Iran

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/sampre-2013-0001