Novel Fe3O4@metal-organic framework@polymer core-shell-shell nanospheres for fast extraction and specific preconcentration of nine organophosphorus pesticides from complex matrices

Food Chem. 2021 Dec 15:365:130485. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.130485. Epub 2021 Jun 26.

Abstract

Herein, a novel core-shell-shell magnetic nanosphere denoted as Fe3O4@ZIF-8@polymer was fabricated by sequential in situ self-assembly and precipitation polymerization for effective magnetic solid-phase extraction of nine organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) from river water, pear, and cabbage samples. The integrated Fe3O4@ZIF-8@polymer featured convenient magnetic separation property and excellent multi-target binding ability. More importantly, the functional polymer coating greatly improved the extraction performance of Fe3O4@ZIF-8 for OPPs, thus facilitating the simultaneous determination of trace OPP residues in real samples. The developed MPSE-LC-MS/MS method exhibited good linearity (R2 ≥ 0.9991) over the concentration range of 0.2-200 µg L-1, low limits of detection of 0.0002-0.005 μg L-1 for river water and 0.006-0.185 μg kg-1 for pear and cabbage, satisfactory precision with relative standard deviations ≤ 9.7% and accuracy with recoveries of 69.5-94.3%. These results highlight that the combination of polymers with MOFs has great potential to fabricate excellent adsorbents for high-throughput analysis of various contaminants in complex matrices.

Keywords: Analysis; Environmental water; Food samples; Magnetic solid-phase extraction; Metal-organic frameworks; Organophosphorus pesticides; Polymer.

MeSH terms

  • Chromatography, Liquid
  • Limit of Detection
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks*
  • Nanospheres*
  • Organophosphorus Compounds
  • Pesticides* / analysis
  • Polymers
  • Solid Phase Extraction
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Substances

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks
  • Organophosphorus Compounds
  • Pesticides
  • Polymers