Fluorocarbon-bonded magnetic mesoporous microspheres for the analysis of perfluorinated compounds in human serum by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry |
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Authors: | Xiaodan Liu Yingjia Yu Yan Li Haiying Zhang Jin Ling Xueni Sun Jianan Feng Gengli Duan |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, No. 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai 201203, PR China;2. Department of Biology, Dezhou University, Shandong 253023, PR China |
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Abstract: | We report herein an extraction method for the analysis of perfluorinated compounds in human serum based on magnetic core–mesoporous shell microspheres with decyl-perfluorinated interior pore-walls (Fe3O4@mSiO2-F17). Thanks to the unique properties of the Fe3O4@mSiO2-F17 microspheres, macromolecules like proteins could be easily excluded from the mesoporous channels due to size exclusion effect, and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in protein-rich biosamples such as serum could thus be directly extracted with the fluorocarbon modified on the channel wall without any other pretreatment procedure. The PFCs adsorbed Fe3O4@mSiO2-F17 microspheres could then be simply and rapidly isolated by using a magnet, followed by being identified and quantified by LC–MS/MS (high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry). Five perfluorinatedcarboxylic acids (C6, C8–C11) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) were selected as model analytes. In order to achieve the best extraction efficiency, some important factors including the amount of Fe3O4@mSiO2-F17 microspheres added, adsorption time, type of elution solvent, eluting solvent volume and elution time were investigated. The ranges of the LOD were 0.02–0.05 ng mL−1 for the six PFCs. The recovery of the optimized method varies from 83.13% to 92.42% for human serum samples. |
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Keywords: | Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) Fluorous solid phase extraction (F-SPE) Magnetic mesoporous microspheres High-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC&ndash MS/MS) Human serum |
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