Determination of six organophosphorus pesticides in water samples by three-dimensional graphene aerogel-based solid-phase extraction combined with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
P SunY L GaoC XuYongfu LianPublished in: RSC advances (2018)
In the present study, a three-dimensional graphene aerogel (3D-GA), synthesised by chemical reduction of an aqueous solution of graphene oxides (GOs) with ethylenediaminethermal by a simple water bath method followed by freeze-drying treatment, was used for the solid-phase extraction (SPE) of six organophosphorus pesticides (OPPs) ( i.e. trichlorfon, dimethoate, ethoprophos, parathion, fenitrothion and fenthion) from water samples. The target analytes were extracted using packed SPE cartridges and then eluted with tetrahydrofuran. The eluate was collected and dried with high-purity nitrogen gas at room temperature. After redissolving in acetone, the residue was analysed using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The proposed method demonstrated a good linearity between 0.5 and 500 μg L -1 with the correlation coefficient of 0.9990-0.9998. The limits of detection (LODs) (S/N = 3) and the limits of quantification (LOQs) (S/N = 10) for the six OPPs pesticides were in the range of 0.12-0.58 μg L -1 and 0.41-1.96 μg L -1 , respectively. The accuracy of the present method was evaluated by measuring the recovery of the spiked samples, which ranged from 93.8% to 104.2% with relative standard deviations (RSDs) of 1.1-5.6%. The established method was successfully applied to the determination of the target analytes in environmental water samples including tap water, river water, drinking water and lake water, demonstrating its great potential for the determination of OPPs in water.
Keyphrases
- solid phase extraction
- gas chromatography mass spectrometry
- room temperature
- gas chromatography
- molecularly imprinted
- high performance liquid chromatography
- liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
- tandem mass spectrometry
- simultaneous determination
- drinking water
- liquid chromatography
- ultra high performance liquid chromatography
- risk assessment
- high resolution mass spectrometry
- ionic liquid
- mass spectrometry
- gold nanoparticles
- high resolution
- health risk assessment
- carbon dioxide
- ms ms
- heavy metals
- health risk
- smoking cessation
- carbon nanotubes
- reduced graphene oxide