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Application of carbon nanotubes as solid-phase extraction sorbent for analysis of chlorophenols in water samples

Marek Gołębiowski, Piotr Stepnowski, and Danuta Leszczyńska

Laboratory of Analysis of Natural Compounds, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

 

E-mail: marek.golebiowski@ug.edu.pl

Abstract: The aim of this work was to investigate the efficiency of various MWCNTs as SPE materials for the preconcentration of chlorophenols. The COOH-functionalized MWCNTs and MWCNTs were used as SPE sorbents. To evaluate the capability of MWCNTs for the preconcentration of chlorophenols from water samples, 2,4-chlorophenol, 4-chlorophenol, 2,4,6-chlorophenol, 2,6-chlorophenol, 3,4-chlorophenol, and 2-chlorophenol were used as model compounds. Chlorophenols were extracted with acetone, methanol, ethanol, and dichloromethane, and determined by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. COOH-functionalized MWCNTs <8 nm were found to be the best sorbent for the tested chlorophenols. For COOH-functionalized MWCNTs <8 nm, the recovery rates for all chlorophenols were higher than 50% when acetone or ethanol was used as eluents. In the case of dichloromethane elution, recovery rates for chlorophenols were from 62.0% for 2,6-DCP to 116.8% for 2,4-DCP; only for 2,4,6-TCP was the recovery rate 30.6%. Similar percentage recoveries were achieved with methanol as the eluent.

Keywords: Chlorophenols; MWCNTs; Solid-phase extraction (SPE); GC/MS

Full paper is available at www.springerlink.com.

DOI: 10.1007/s11696-016-0098-z

 

Chemical Papers 71 (4) 831–839 (2017)

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